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THE KNOX FAMILY 




HATTIE S. GOODMAN, WoodLEAF, N. C. 



THE KNOX FAMILY 

A GENEALOGICAL AND BIOG- 
RAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE 

Descendants of John Knox 

OF ROWAN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA 

AND OTHER KNOXES 

'By 
HATTIE S. GOODMAN 






Illustrated 



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RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 

Whittet & Shepperson, Printers and Publishers 
1905 



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JAN 5 1953 



First Printing: July, 1905 
Second Printing: July, 195a 



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CONTENTS. 

CHAPTER I. p^^. 

Origin of the Name Kxox, and Extracts from Dif- 
ferent Books and Manuscripts on thf Early 
Family of Knox, 9 

CHAPTER II. 

The Family of Knox the Reformer, 17 

CHAPTER III. 

Will of John Knox, the Reformer, 25 

CHAPTER IV. 

John Knox, Emigrant, and Jean Knox's Will, 30 

CHAPTER V. 

William Knox and Descendants, 38 

CHAPTER VI. 

Samuel Knox and Descendants, . . . .^ T4 

CHAPTER VII. 

James Knox and Descendants, 113 

CHAPTER VIII. 

Absalom Knox and Descendants, 142 

CHAPTER IX. 

John Knox, Jr., and Descendants, 1T2 

CHAPTER X. 

Joseph Knox and Descendants, 209 



2 CONTENTa. 

CHAPTER XI. P^Qg 

Benjamin Knox and Descendants, 224 

CHAPTER XII. 

Mary Knox and her Descendants, 231 

CHAPTER XIII. 
Other Families of Knox, 235 

CHAPTER XIV. 

Notes on the Family of Knox from Scottish Eegis- 

TERS 253 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Pack. 

Hattie S. Goodman, Frontispiece. 

John Knox, the Reformer. 19 

,Tohn T. Knox,* 39 

lien Allen Knox, 52 

Mrs. Cynthia Knox Border.s, 76 

Chri-toplier"' C. Knox, 81 

Clidup of Tennessee Knoxes. 97 

Jdlin 1>. Knox. 1U2 

Knee IJuekle of Capt. James Knox 113 

William H. Polk 120 

Jame> K. Polk 121 

Rev. Ab-alom K. Parr and wife 157 

Rev. William A. Wood 166 

Home of Rev. A. K. I>arr and family at Springfield. Ohio 168 

.Mr. and Mr-. Sarah P.arr Peai-ii 169 

Lawrence W. Parr and family 169 

Rev. and Mis. L. L. I'hl and daughter 170 

Home of Rev. and Mr-. Ihl, in India 170 

John Seudder Parr and family 171 

Rev. -Tames Knox I!t7 

(Jroiip of six Knox brotheis 210 

R. M. Knox"s re-idence in Pine P.lufT 213 

Mrs. Sue Knox Wherry and Mi>s Mittie Knox 21.j 

J. R. Jaoknurn 243 



PREFACE. 

About sixty years ago the Rev. James Knox, an uncle to the 
writer, drew up a sketch of the names of his Knox ancestors, as 
far back as he could trace the line — beginning with his great- 
grandfather, John Knox, from Scotland. 

Upon seeing this, the idea was at once suggested to the writer 
to undertake a Genealogical Knox Family Tree. With this 
miniature chart on a sheet of writing paper as a nucleus or 
starting point, the work was commenced in 1890. Year bv vear 
the "tree"' continued to grow, as in tracing out the different 
branches new limbs were added, until, at present, it contains not 
less than 2,200 names, many dates, etc. 

While collecting material for the "tree," there was quite an 
amount of information sent in that might prove of interest, and 
could not be entered on the drawing, which we have been re- 
quested to prepare, in connection with the genealogy, for book 
form. 

In the preparation of this work the author has endeavored 
to present as full and accurate a record as possible of the de- 
scendants of John Knox, immigrant. Still, there are some 
branches we have not succeeded in tracing, or carr^'ing down to 
the present day. 

We had hoped to trace the line back into Scotland, but so far 
have not been able to do so. 

We have been greatly aided in the work by some of the cousins 
on the respective branches, to all of whom we extend sincere 
thanks. We might mention several to whom we are specially 
indebted for valuable assistance. On the Samuel Knox branch, 



6 Preface. 

Hon. John B. Knox, Anniston, Ala., aided in inany ways — 
loaned me a book. The Bowie Family, which was indeed a very 
great help. Judge T. J. Davis, Cave Spring, Ga,; Dr. E. Y. 
Kudicil, Sumnierville, Ga., and W. W. Knox, Menlo, Ga., sent 
interesting data. On the David LucTcey Knox branch, Mr. 
Walter S. Knox, Charleston, Tenn., and Brother Henry Knox 
and Mr. Chris. L. Knox, Corsicana, Texas, gave hel]) and en- 
couragement. On the Viilliam branch, Mr. John T. Knox, San 
Bernardino, Cal., and John Knox, Sigourney, Iowa. On James 
Knox branch, Mrs. A^irginia Knox Maddox. San Franci>eo. Cal.; 
Mrs. William Polk, Warrenton, X. C, and ]Mrs. Boone, Canluige, 
Missouri. 

Mr. Jesse Brandon sent a record of tlie Brandons. On Joseph 
Knox branch, Mr. E. M. and S. Y. T. Knox, Pine Blulf, Ark.; 
also Mr. B. F. Knox, Milton, Tenn. On the Absalom branch, 
the name of Miss Margaret Caumont Force will be gratefully 
remembered for kind assistance, especially in making search in 
the Congressional Library. 

^lany others might be named who cheerfully aided in the 
work. 

Mr. Eobert T. Knox, of Fredericksburg, Ya., though not of 
the line or family we have been tracing (so far as we know), 
manifested much interest in the history of our line of the Knox 
family. He kindly loaned us a valuable Knox book, from which 
we copied an amount of interesting data. 

The material for these pages has been gathered from a num- 
ber of different sources: County and State records, Library of 
Congress, and Bureau of Pensions at Washington ; Genealogical 
Memoirs of John Knox and the Family of Knox, by Eev. Charles 
Eogers, LL. D., etc., etc. The genealogical data has been secured 
chiefly from letters and family records sent in for the Knox 
Tree. 



PlJEFACE. K 

We also had research made in the records of Scotland, the 
result of which is, so far, rather unsatisfactory. 

The failure to connect this family witli the line of John 
Ivnox, the reformer, may be due to the fact that we were unable 
to locate with certainty the birthplace of John Knox, of Kowan, 
our immigrant progenitor. 

Xotwithstanding the undertaking has proven quite a tedious 
one, we have enjoyed it, the only regret being that 1 was not 
more capable of doing justice to the subject. Many, very many, 
errors Avill be found, no doubt. 

AiiL'Y SO long a time, the fnis has been reached, and the result 
of our hihors presented to the Knoxes and their descendants by 

The Author. 



NOTE. 

A small figure over a name indicates tlie generation. Starting with 
the imigrant progenitor. Jolin Knox. a> Xo. '. liis children are marked 
*, and so on. 

Frequently tliere will he found large Roman numerals opposite the 
number and name, indicating the number of section furtlier on where the 
line of descent is again carried on. 

An index at t!ie close of the sketcli will afford any further informa- 
tion necessary. 



THE KNOX FAMILY. 



CHAPTER I. 

Ohigix of the Xame Knox. Extracts from Different 
Books and ^Manuscripts on the Early Family of Knox. 

THE surname Knox is local, and signifies a small, or round- 
topped hill. (This we have from several sources.) There 
are a variety of forms or spellings of the name to be found: 
Knoe, Knock, Knok. Knokis, Knokkis, Knokks, Knox, Knoxe, 
Knoxis. 

The following is copied from a narrative sketcli of the family 
of Knox. 1825. "Pedigree at large with John Frederick Knox, 
]\Iount Falcon Estate, Co. Mayo, Ireland.'" 

"The pedigree of this most ancient and most illustrious race 
which has now flourished for more than fifteen hundred years 
(and that historically), and which is of royal origin, has been 
given in the chart, heretofore supplied only from the period of 
their establishment in Ireland. This took place about the begin- 
ning of the seventeenth century, about a. d. 1610, when they 
came hither from Scotland, where they had flourished in tlie 
highest distinction for more than five centuries previously, viz., 
from A. D. lOTl to A. D. 1610, when Andrew Knox, Bishop of the 
Isles, was translated thence to be Bishop of Eaphoe, in Ireland, 
leaving his son, Thomas Knox, Bishop of the Isles. 

".\mong other Scottish honors this family enjoyed three 
earldoms, viz., Dunbar, March and ]\Ioray. They have been 
regents of that kingdom, and have mated with the noblest and 
highest therein, including the blood royal ; while for upwards 
of six centuries previous to a. d. 1072 they flourished in England 
as sovereign princes, viz., during the Saxon heptarchy, and until 
the Xorman invasion. 



10 - The Knox Family. 

''They came into England from Saxony, where their ancestors 
had reigned for centuries. Of this royal family three brothers 
were the reigning princes at the time of their coming into Eng- 
land, about A. D. 450, their names being Hengist, Horsa and 
Uchter, or Octer. Soon after this period, Uchter aforesaid laid 
the foundations of the. Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumber- 
land. 

"Later we find that 'the Saxon name of Uchter softened into 
Utred.' His son Adamus married the Lady Sybilla, or Isabella, 
the daughter of Walter, the High Steward of Scotland (his 
cousin by birth), and obtained with her in dowry and frank 
marriage four baronies or lordships in fee within the regality of 
Eenfrew on terms of fealty (only) to the Baron of Renfrew, the 
said Walter, Lord High Steward, who was Lord Paramount of 
said regality. 

"The names of these four baronies were Knox, Ranfurly, 
Craigends and Griffcastle, and Adamus havi-ng left Dunbar and 
fixed his residence in said Barony of Knox, came therefore and 
thenceforward to be described and known as Adamus de Knox. 
Surnames were about that time coming into use, and were gen- 
erally taken from such and similar causes." 

Knox Of Prehen. 

From Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, by Sir Bernard. 
Burke. 8 L. Ed. London. Harrison & Sons, 59 Pall Mall. From 
Vol. I., page 1127. 

"Lineage. — This would now appear to be the direct represen- 
tative line of the ancient and extended family of Knox, the 
founder of that name Adamus, son of Uchtred, who married 
Sybella, daughter of Walter, High Steward of Scotland, anc-estor 
of the royal house of Stuart, obtained from the High Steward 
temp Alexander II. Ranfurlie, Grieffecastle, Craigend, etc., in 
the barony and County of Renfrew. 

"The descendants of Adamus assumed the surname of Knox, 
derived, according to Patronymic Brittanica, page 182, from the 
lands of Knocks, or Knox, 'Knock' being Gaelic for round-topped 



Origin of the Name Knox 11 

hill. For many generations they were seated at the castle of 
Ranfurlie, the ruins of which lie between Glasgow and Greenock. 
Descent is claimed for Adannis as from Uchtred, the second son 
of Walter, Earl of Dunbar, the son of Cospatrick, Earl of Xorth- 
umberland, temp. William I. (the Conqueror), and afterwards 
Earl of Dunbar, in Scotland, who died 1069. He was descended 
from Maldred, Prince of the Isles, and brother of Duncan II., 
King of Scots, by Algitha, daughter of Ucter, Earl of Northum- 
berland. 

"Adamus had a son, Johanne del Cnok, who married Isabel, 
daughter and coheir of Robert, Lord Eos of Werke; who had a 
son, Uchtred de Knocks, who had a son, John de Knocks, who by 
his wife, the only child of Sir Robert Maxvell, of Calderwood, by 
Elizabeth, coheiress of Sir Robert Denniss; had two sons: 
1 Uchtred, 2 William, who was father of John Knox, the re- 
former. The eldest son, Uchtred Knox, married Agnes, daugh- 
ter of Lord Lyle. Their eldest son, UchtTed, married Janet, 
daughter of Lord Sempill, and had : 

"I. Uchter, who succeeded him; 

"II. William, styled Silvyland,— 
Ancestors of the family of Knox, of Rappa Castle, of Mount 
Falcon, of Grace Dun, and of Greenwood, and of tlii' llail- "( 
Ranfurley." 

Nowhere does Burke mention any Knox coming to this 
country. (We are told by the lady who made search for Knox 
of Prehen.) 

Extracts fioin Genealogical Menwirs of John Knox and of the Family 
of Knox. By the Rev. Charles Rogers, LL. D., Fellow of Royal His- 
torical Society, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 
Printed for the Grampian Club. 1879. 

[The tirst part of the book treats in a general way of the 
family of Knox, especially those of Renfrewshiro and IJanlurly. 
The hutrr part is confined mainly to John Knox, the rffonnrr, 
and Ills family. Freqent quotations are made from ditfercnt 
ancient writings and manuscripts.] 



12 - TfTE Kxox Family. 

About the 1260 Johanne de Cnok is named as witness in a 
charter of the lands of Inglis'ton, Eenfrewshire. On page 8 we 
find: "In his genealogical narrative Mr. Crawford continues, 
'The first writing or voucher of the family of Ranfurlie that is 
extant, at least that I have seen, is a charter by King James II., 
Uchtredo Knox de Eanfurlie terrarum de Eanfurlie, and the 
whole estate of the family, tenendis de Domino Senescallo Scotie. 
Frequent mention is made of Uchter Knox. One of that name 
was one of the arbiters in 1489.' " 

On page 11, Andrew Knox, second son of John Knox of 
Eanfurlie, and grand uncle of Uchter, the last laird of this 
family, studied at the University of Glasgow, where he gradu- 
ated A. M. in 1579. In 1581 he was ordained minister of Loch- 
winnoeh, Ayrshire. In 1593 he, at the head of a party, attacked 
and discomfited a body of armed persons, who, in the service of 
Spain, had landed at Ailsa Craig, in the hope of re-establishing 
in Scotland the Eoman faith.'' On December 16, 1597, an act 
was passed by the Estates of Parliament, whereby he and others 
were declared to have done "loyell and gud service to his Majes- 
tic and his cuntrey." ^ 

Mr. Andrew Knox was translated to the Abbey Church of 
Paisley in 1585. In 1594 he built a house in Paisley; it is now 
25 High Street, and in an oak panel over the chimney of the 
principal room are engraved his initials, with those of his wife. 
In the gable of this house, which he owned jointly with John 
Maxwell of Stanelie, having placed a window, Maxwell objected, 
and in 1595 applied to the magistrate to have the window shut 
up. To this effect an order was procured, which, strongly re- 
sented by Mr. Knox, led his parishioners to abandon his min- 
istry. Bishop Andrew Knox died 27 March, 1633, aged seventy- 
four. 

Page 15. The testament-datim of John Knox of Eanfurlie, 
who died 21st March, 1594, was "gevin up be Eobert Knox, for 
himself and in name and behalf of Patrick Knox, his broder, 
lawfull bairnes to. ye said vmquhile Johne Knox, yair fader, and 
executors-datim, decernit to him be decreit of Eob't Blair, Com- 

aTasti Eccl. Scot., II.. 194. b Acta Pari. Scot., IV., 148. 



Origin of tiik Namk Knox 13 

missar-depnt of Lowthiane, as ye samen decreit of ye daitt ye 
six day of ^lay, ye zeir of God I™ V"= LXXXXV. Zeires, niair 
at length beiris.'' 

Page 17. On the death of Uchter Knox, of Riinfurlie, with- 
out heir male, the representation of the family devolved on the 
family of Knox of Silvieland. Belonging to this family there 
was one Marcus Knox, who, according to John M'Ure, published 
a history of Glasgow in 1736, presented a great bell to the cathe- 
dral of that city, in place of one which had been removed at the 
Reformation. The bell was accidentally rent in 1789. when it 
was recast, a legend, indicating the original donor, being in- 
scribed upon it."^ 

A newspaper clipping furnishes the following with reference 
to this bell : 

"This bell is twelve feet one inch in circumference, and is 
possessed of a rich, sonorous tone, truly delightful to hear. It 
has lately completed its three hundredth year, but even worthy 
age does not always command veneration, and from the abuse to 
which all had been subjected the bell did not escape. In 1789 
it was cracked in some unexplained manner, and had to be 
refounded in the following year. 

The inscription upon it is quaint and of great interest: 

"In the Year of Grace, 
1594, 
MARCUS KNOX, 
A merchant of Glasgow, Zealous for the interest of the 
Reformed Religion, caused me to be fabricated in Holland, 
For the use of his fellow-citizens in Glasgow, And placed 
me with Solemnity 

In the tower of this Cathedral. 

My functif^n 

Was announced by the impress on my bosom. 

Me audita vcnias doctrinam Sanctam )it discas, 

And 

I was taught to proclaim the Fours of unheeded time. 

195 years had I sounded these awful warnings. 



c Dr. Gordon's History of Glasgow, p. G89. 



14 The Knox Family. 

When I was broken 

By the hands of inconsiderate and unskillful men. 

In the year 1790 I was cast into the furnace, refounded at 

London and returned to my sacred vocation. 

Reader, Thou also shalt know a resurrection. May it be 

unto eternal life." 

(Thomas Mears, fecit. London, 1790.) 

Page 21. "Thomas Knox was all his life firmly attached to 
the Protestant interest, and so distinguished himself in the reign 
of King James YII. ; also in the reign of Queen Anne. King 
George I. named him one of the lords of his most honorable 
Privy Council. Though Mr. Knox had left Scotland and settled 
in Ireland, he took care that a record, or authentic voucher, 
should remain in Scotland of his descent from the ancient family 
of Eanfurly, and of which in his own time he came to be the 
representative, for he applied to the Lord Lyon, Sir Charles 
Erskine of Cambo, to get his coat of arms matriculate, which 
was done accordingly, and is recorded in the Lyon oflfice, viz. : 
'Thomas Knox, Esq., in the kingdom .of Ireland, lawful son to 
Thomas Knox, descended of the family of Ranfurlie, in the king- 
dom of Scotland ; Gules, a falcon volant, or within an orb wavy 
on the outer side and ingrailed on the inner side, argent. Crest, 
A falcon close perching proper. Motto, Moveo et Proficior/ " 

[There is a painting of this coat of arms by Miss Nevada 
Lindsay, Fredericksburg, Va., Sept. 14, 1897, pasted in the book 
from which we copied. Underneath the drawing are these words : 
Arms of Baron Knox, of the Baronies of Knox, Eanfurly, Crai- 
gyns, Griffcastle, Eenfrewshire, Scotland.]. 

Page 33. "The Earl of Eanfurly bears as his escutcheon: 
Gules, a falcon volant, or, within an orb, wavy on the outer and 
engrailed on the inner side, argent. Crest, A falcon close, stand- 
ing on a perch, proper. Supporters, Two falcons, wings inverted, 
proper, ducally gorged, lined, beaked, numbered, and belled, or. 
Motto, Moveo et proficior. 

Page 43. "The family of Knox of Prehen, County London- 
derry, is descended from the Scottish House of Eanfurlie. In 



Origin of the Name Knox 15 

this line one Andrew Knox, elder son of George Knox of Minny- 
more, represented the County Donegal in the Irish Parliament 
for twenty-five years. A colonel in the army. He married, about 
1738, Honoria Tomkins, of Prehen. Had two children, George 
and Mary Anne. Mary Anne was murdered by one John Mac- 
naghten. George succeeded his mother in the lands of Prehen. 
He married in 1760 Jane Mahon; had four sons and two daugh- 
ters." 

Page 46. "In his history of County Down, the late Dr. Alex- 
ander Knox, of Strangford, remarks that the earliest occurrence 
of the name of Knox in Ireland, which he had seen was the sig- 
nature of Thomas, appended to an inquisition held at Antrim on 
the 12th July, 1605. Probably this early settler was the father 
of three brothers (traditionally of the Kenfrewshire family of 
Eanfurly) who, about 1620, settled as tenant-farmers on the 
lands of Ballynennox, near Coleraine, in the County of London- 
derry. One of these brothers, James Knox, who occupied the 
large mountain farm of Murder Hole, died in 1660, leaving two 
sons, James and Robert. James Knox, the eldest son, who suc- 
ceeded to his father's farm, distinguished himself by an act of 
daring. During the hiemorable siege of Londonderry, in 1689, 
when the garrison was oppressed by famine, he, assisted by his 
two sons, conveyed a herd of cattle to Lough Foyle, opposite the 
Culmore Fort, where the river is narrow, and on a dark night 
drove them at low tide along the 'slob' or mud, introducing them 
into the city by the water gate. James Knox died 1701. His 
brother, Robert, volunteered into the (now) Third Buffs, and 
was severely wounded at the battle of the Boyne. 

"John Knox, son of James, second of Murder Hole, died in 
1740, leaving two sons; James, the elder son, succeeded to his 
father's lease. He married Mary Boyd, of Ballymillan, and 
died in 1778, leaving two sons, John and Robert. 

"Robert Knox proceeded to America about 1780; he and his 
descendants founded the important city of Knoxville, Tenn. 

"John Knox died in 1798. He had four sons. William, the 
eldest, was thirty-six years Presbyterian minister at Danboe, in 
the County of Londonderry. Possessed of high culture and ele- 



16 The Knox Family. 

gant learning, he enjoyed the intimacy of the Earl of Bristol, 
Lord Bishop of Deny, whose residence at Downhill was situated 
in his parish. He died in 1801, leaving four sons, Samuel, John, 
William and Wright." 

Page 57. "Early in the fifteenth century a branch of the 
family of Knox, of the County of Renfrew, engaged in merchan- 
dise at Edinburgh. In the charter of St. Giles Church, Adam de 
Knokkis is named as a bailie or magistrate of the city in 1428, 
and as deceased in 1445." 



CHAPTER II. 

The Family of Kxox, the Reformer. 

PAGE 58. "Of that branch of the Knox family which settled 
in Haddingtonshire we ha\'^ no particulars prior to the 
time of the Reformer. 

The Reformer's father was William Knox. His Christian 
name is obtained from two entries in the municipal records of 
Geneva. His social status does not very distinctly appear. John 
Davidson, a contemporary of the Reformer, in a panegyrical 
poem, uses these lines: 

' First, he desoendit bot of linage small, 
As commonly God usis for to call 
The Simpill sort his summondis till expres.' 

"William Knox, the Reformer's father, married into the re- 
•spectable county family of Sinclair.^ A near relation of Marion 
Sinclair, wife of George Ker, whose daughter, and apparent heir 
of Xicolas Ker, was second wife of Alexander, Lord Home, Lord 
Chamberlain of Scotland. One of the witnesses to a contract in 
1497, in flavor of Al, Lord Home, and Nicholas Ker, was Wm. 
Sinclair, who was probably father or brother of the Reformer's 
mother. 

"William Knox, the Reformer's father, had two sons, William 
and John. William was no doubt the elder son. He first ap- 
pears as a merchant at Preston, and was occasionally employed 
in political affairs. In a letter from the Earl of Arra'n, Regent 
of Scotland, to Edward VI., dated 24th February, 1551-'2, are 
sought 'letters of saulf conduct and sure passport, in due forme, 
to our lovit William Knox in Prestoun, and thrie factouris or 
atlornayis for him, togedder with six persons with him in cum- 

a In times of peril, when his letters were likely to be intercepted, the 
Reformer was accustomed to subscribe himself as "John Sinclair." 
(McCrie's Life of Knox, Edinburgh, 1818. Vol. I., p. 2.) 



18 The Knox Family. 

pany, saulflie and surelie to cum within your realme of England 
(with merchandii-e), and to sell the same to the lieges of your 
realme.' " 

Page G2. "William Knox, merchant at Preston, was father 
of three sons, William, Paul and John. WilHam Knox, the 
eldest son, was in 1507 minister of the parishes of Cockpen and 
Carrington, in the county of Edinburgh. He died in 1592, leav- 
ing two sons, William, his successor, and James, minister at 
Kelso. William, the elder son, had by his first wife three sons, 
John, William and Xicol; by his second wife, Andrew, Patrick 
and Simon. John, the eldest son of Rev. William, had a son, 
John, who died without issue. 

"William Knox, second son of Eev. William, was a jaook- 
binder in Edinburgh. He married, and had three sons, James, 
Robert and Henry. James, the eldest — born in 1630, and died 
1680 — was minister of Bowden. Robert, second son, was a 
writer in Edinburgh. He had a son, James, who was baptized in 
1668. He had a son, William, and ten daughters. William 
Knox, the only son, was baptized in 1708. 

"Henry Knox, third son of William Knox, bookbinder, was 
baptized in 161:1. He had a son Avho became minister of the 
island of St. Christopher. Nicol died without issue. Andrew 
Knox, eldest son by second wife, died unmarried. Patrick, sec- 
ond son, was secretary to the Earl of Craven, ambassador extra- 
ordinary to Holland, and was by his lordship recommended to 
the States of Zealond, as factor for their possessions in India. 
He died without issue, leaving a fortune to his 3'ounger brother, 
Simon. 

"Simon Knox had one son, William, who had seven sons and 
five daughters. John, the eldest, baptized Jan. 10, 1708, was a 
surgeon in India. He married, and had two daughters, Eliza- 
beth, who married Andrew Duncan, M. D., Ed., by whom she 
had five sons and seven daughters. 

"Paul Knox, second son of William Knox, merchant, Pres- 
ton, is, in the will of his uncle, the Reformer, named thus: 'Item, 
I leif to Paul Knox, my bruder Sone, ane hundreth pundis, 
quhilk lyis in wodset vponne Robert Campbell's lands in Kyn- 




JOHN KNOX, THE reformer. 



The Family of Knox the Eeformer. 19 

zeanclencht, and quhairin the said Paule is ellis infeft, and that 
to be ane help to hahl him at the scuillis.' " He was ordained 
minister of Kelso in lo7-i. 

"John Knox, third son of William Knox, at Presion, died in 
1623. He, it is thought, had a son, John, Avhose elder son, 
Henry, a preacher and Master of Arts, attended Charles II. in 
his exile, and a sum was by the English put upon his head. He 
died in the house of a friend in Edinburgh.'' 

"John Knox, the younger son, served as chaplain in the army 
in support of Charles II., and was present at the battle «f In- 
verkirthing, in July, 1651. He rendered valuable service to the 
Eoyalist cause by capturing a merchant vessel bearing supplies 
to the English army. He had a son and a daughter. John Knox 
described as his son, married Isobel Mack, by whom he had three 
£ons. One, Robert, was physician to the forces during the Amer- 
ican war. He afterwards settled in London, and died in 1792." 

John Knox the Reformer. 

Page 71. "John Knox, the Reformer, was born in a suburb 
■of Haddington, known at Giffordgate. The Rev. Dr. Barclay, 
minister of Haddington, writing in 1785, represents as then 
standing in the Gii?ordgate the house in which the Reformer 
was born.*' '^ 

On page 107 is a picture and description of his residence at 
the Xetherbow Port, in the city of Edinburgh. "This dwelling 
remains entire (now over three centuries old) as the only monu- 
ment in the Scottish capital of the illustrious Reformer. A 
stone building of irregular architecture, with small ornate win- 
dows; it exhibits a timber projection, and outside stair. At an 
angle is a statue of Moses receiving the law. The lawgiver points 
to a carved stone, designed to represent the sun rising among the 
clouds, on which is engraved the name of God, in Greek, Latin 
and English. On the west front Ts the legend, 'Lufe God above 
al, and your neighbor as yourself.' In October, 1561, the Town 

b Fasti Eccl. Scot., I., 544. 
c Archaelogia Scotia, Vol. I., p. 69. 



20 The Kxox Family. 

Council of Eclinburgli added to the mansion a "warm study,' con- 
structed of oak, which has two windows, a fireplace, and a recess 
for books." 

The Home of John Kxox, Edinburgh, Scotland. 

"Up the narrow stairs that are visible in the picture, hun- 
dreds climb daily to see the place where lived the one 'who never 
feared the face of man or woman.' On the wall of the sitting- 
room hang autograph letters of the great people of the day from 
Germany, France, Switzerland and England. Around this room 
is a frieze, on which is the inscription, 'I am in the place where 
I am demanded of my conscience to speak the truth, therefore 
the truth I speak, impugn it who lists. Let us possess Jesus 
Christ, and the benefits of his evangel, and none within Scotland 
will be more obedient subjects than we.' From the large, second- 
floor window, Knox used to preach to the throngs in the street 
below, when no longer able to go to his beloved St. Giles and 
preach 'three times a day and twice on Sunday.' The s-tudy is 
the projection from the wall on the third floor front. By the 
little square window one can sit at the desk of the Eeformer, and 
turn the leaves of the first Bible printed in Edinburgh. On the 
door of the study is a crude knocker — a bar and ring of iron. 
The furniture of the house proper has beautiful carvings, much 
of it more elaborate in design than that used by Queen Mary in 
Holyrood Palace.'' 

We are indebted to the Xorth Carolina Preshyterian Stan- 
dard for the cut (and description following it) of the home of 
John Knox.* 

Knox is said to have been the most illustrious Scotsman of 
his age — a reformer who, in intellectual force, may be ranked 
with Luther, Calvin and Zwingle. ■ The life and labors of this 
great Reformer are familiar to all readers of history. 

Page 95. "Christopher Goodman is mentioned as Knox's 
colleague at Geneva. , They ministered in the Temple de Nostre 
Darne la Neiuve, granted them, on Calvin's intercession, by the 
Lesser Council of the city." 



a We failed to get plate of the home of John Knox. 



The Family of Kxox the Reformer. 21 

Knox was twice married. He first married Marjory Bowes, 
in 1553. In a letter, dated 1st September, 1553, he names Mar- 
jory Bowes as his "wyfe"; in another, as his "dearest spouse." 
Mrs. Knox died in 1560, about the age of twenty-seven. Having 
remained a widower three years, Knox, in March, 1563, espoused 
Margaret Stewart, second daughter of Andrew j third Lord 
Ochiltree. His wife inherited royal blood; she was descended 
from Robert II. Her father, known as '^the good Lord Ochil- 
tree," was the Reformer's deeply attached friend, and a most 
zealous promoter of the reformed doctrines. Knox in 1567 de- 
livered a discourse before Parliament, commending the interests 
of the church. The Confession of Faith, and acts establishing 
the Protestant faith and against Popery, were now formally 
ratified. It was further enacted that each succeeding sovereign 
should make promise at the coronation to uphold the Reformed 
faith and the jurisdiction of the General Assembly. [Mary, 
Queen of Scotland, said, "I fear John Knox's prayers more than 
an army of ten thousand men."] 

Page 119. "In 1570 the Reformer's health began to fail. 
In October he sufl:'ered an attack of apoplexy, which for a time 
impaired his utterance. But he recovered, and continued to 
preach each morning. 

"One of his hearers, James Melville, then a college student, 
afterwards minister of Anstruther, in his diary describes his 
manner of preaching in these words: *I heard him teatch the 
prophecies of Daniel that simmer (1571) and the winter fol- 
lowing. I had my pen and my little bulk, and tuk away sic 
things as I could comprehend. In the opening up of his text, 
he was moderate, the space of an halff houre; but when he en- 
tered to application, he made me so to grow (thrill) and tremble, 
that I could noeht hald a i)en to-wryt. He was verie weik. I saw 
him everie day of his doctrine, go huliie and fear (slowly and 
warily) with a furring of martriks about his neck, a staffe in 
the ane hand, and gud godlie Richart Ballanden, his servand, 
halden up the uther oxtar (armpit) from the abl^ey to the pa- 
roche kirk, and he the said Richart and another servand lifted 
upe to the pulpit, whar he behovit to lean at his first entrie; 



22 The Knox Family. 

but or he haid done with his sermont, he was sa active and 
vigorous that he was like to ding the pulpit in blads (pieces), 
and fly out of it.' 

"In August, 1572 he returned to Edinburgh. On Sunday, 
November Oth, the Eeformer preached for the last time. On 
November 11th he was seized with asthma, which in two day* 
was followed by severe prostration." 

Page 124. "On the 21st of November he gave instructions 
that his coffin should be prepared. On the 24th his sight began 
to fail, and he requested his wife to read to him the fifteenth 
chapter of First Corinthians; also the seventeenth chapter of 
John's gospel, where, he remarked, he had 'cast- his first anchor.' 
At ten o'clock he joined heartily in the evening de-votions. 
About eleven o'clock he said, 'The end has come.' 'Give us a 
sign that it is peace,' said one who stood near. The dying man 
pointed upward, and yielded up his spirit. November, 1572." 

Page 128. "The Reformer's mortal remains were, amidst a 
vast assemblage, conveyed from his house to St. Giles* Church- 
yard on Wednesday, 26th of November. The Earl of Morton, 
elected regent on the day of the Reformer's death, stood by the 
grave, and as the body was lowered into it expressed these words 
of eloge : 

" There in .the dust lies one 
Who never feared the face of man; 
Tho' threatened oft with dag and dagger, 
He closed his life in peace and honour." 

"St. Giles' Churchyard was in 1633 discontinued as a place 
of interment, and it has since been built upon, and partly used 
as a paved street. In that portion of it known as Parliament 
Close, a pavement stone, inscribed with the initials "J. K., 1572," 
is intended to denote tlje Reformer's grave, but it is held, on 
competent authority, that the equestiian statue of Charles II., a 
few yards to the east, occupies the actual spot.*^ 

It is to be regretted that, among the monuments of the 
illustrious dead which stud the northern capital, no statue or 

d See Dr. Daniel Wilson's Memorials of Edinburgh, Vol. I., p. 84. 



The Family of Knox the Reformer. 23 

cenotaph has been reared to John Knox, to whom, next to the 
patriots, WaHace and Bruce, Scotsmen are indebted for having 
inspired in them that love of liberty which has become a charac- 
teristic of the race. 

Page 139. John Knox had two sons by his first wife, Marjory 
Bowes, Nathaniel and Eleazer Knox ; both died unmarried. By 
his second wife, Margaret Stewart, there were three daughters, 
Martha, ]\Iargaret and p]lizabetli. 

"Martha Kno.>-, eldest daughter of John Knox, by his second 
wife, was born in 1565. In 1584 she became the third wife of 
Alexander Fairlie. She died 1593 aged twenty-seven. She left 
three sons and one daughter. Their line is believed to be ex- 
tinct." 

"Margaret Knox, the Eeformer's second daughter, was born 
about 1567. She married Zachary Pont, eldest son of Robert 
Pont, minister of St. Cuthberts. Zachary Pont was appointed 
'chief printer within the realm.' Issue, two sons, Robert and 
Samuel Pont. (Page 142.) This line is said to be extinct." 

"Elizabeth Knox, third and youngest daughter of John 
Knox, was born 1570. She married, in 1594, Mr. John Welsh, 
whose ministerial career is intimately associated with the his- 
tory of this period. The family of Welsh, the name being vari- 
ously spelt — Walsh, Welsche and Velshe — possessed lands in the 
county of Dumfries. Mr. W^elsh, learning that a Scottish colony, 
to be named New Scotland, was about to be planted in North 
America, with the view of joining his countrymen in forming 
the proposed colony, in 1622, proceeded to London. Being in 
feeble health, his physicians recommended that he return to 
Scotland. Banished from thence at the king's command, he 
might not return without the royal sanction; so his w^ife sought 
an interview with the king. Though not ignorant of her descent, 
James asked her whose daughter she was. 'My father was John 
Knox,' she replied. 'Knox and Welsh,' exclaimed the king; 'the 
devil ne'er made sic a match as that.' 'Maybe,' responded Mrs. 
Welsh, 'for we never speired (asked) his leave.' Mrs, Welsh now. 
entreated the king that her husband might, in his sickness, be 
allowed to revisit his native country. 'He shall,' said the king, 
'if he submit himself to the bishops.' 'Sooner than he should do 



24: The Knox Family. 

so/ said Mrs. Welsh, extending her apron, 'I would kep his head 
there.' She then withdrew from the roj-al presence. 

"Mr. Welsh died at London, in 1622, aged fifty-three. His 
remains were consigned to the churchyard of St. Bodolph, Bish- 
opgate, in a portion of ground provided for the interment of 
strangers.^ After his death his widow was tenderly cared for 
at Aye by those who had profited by his ministry. Mrs. Welsh 
died at Aye in 1625. In her will, which is dated 8th January, 
1625, she bequeathed to the poor and the hospital of Aye forty 
pounds. The residue of her goods (valued at 4,320 pounds, 
Scots) she bequeathed for division among her sons, Josias and 
Nathaniel, and her daughter, Louise.' 

"Of the marriage of Mr. John Welsh and Elizabeth Knox 
were born three sons and two daughters. The elder daughter 
died in 1614, at Jonsac, France. Louise, the younger daughter, 
was born in 1613: her history is not certainly known. William, 
the eldest son, was a doctor of medicine; while practicing as a 
physician in the Netherlands, he was there accidentally killed. 
Margaret, his only child, died in 1633, when her uncle, Josiah 
Welsh, was served as her heir-in-law. 

"Josiah Welsh, second son of Mr. John Welsh and Elizabeth 
Knox, was educated at Geneva; in 1617 was sent to Glasgow 
to complete his studies. From there he proceeded to the north 
of Ireland, where a colony from the west of Scotland had been 
lately planted. Having been ordained by Andrew Knox, Bishop 
of Raphoe, who is said to have regarded him as a relative, he was, 
in 1626, settled as minister at Templepatrick, County Antrim. 
He died 23 June, 1634. He married, but his wife's name is not 
given." 

Page 150. "John Welsh, minister of Kirkpatrick, Irongray, 
in the County of Dumfries, is known to have been a son of 
Josias Welsh. He married Miss Christian Inglis, but died with- 
out issue." 

Page 153. "William Welsh seems to have been a son of the 
minister of Templepatrick. If Mr. Josiah Welsh. left several 
children, they were unprovided for, since he died young." 

e Young's Life of Welsh, 2>a^sim. t Ibid., p. 411. 



CHAPTER III. 
Will of Joiix Knox, the Rkfokmer.* 

From Genealogical Memoirs of John Knox, and the Family of Knox. 
By Rev. Charles Rogers, LL. D., page 129-136. 

* 

*' rri HE Testament Te&tamentarie and Inventare of the 

1 guidis, geir, sowmes of money, and dettis pertening to 
vmquhile Johnne Knox, minister of the evangell of Christ Jesus, 
the tvme of his deceis, qiiha deepissit vponn the xxiiij day of 
Novenilx^r, the zeir of God, J"' V^ LXXIJ zeiris, tfaithfullie 
maid and gevin vp bi himself vponn the xiij day of Maii, the 
zeir of God foirsaid, and pairtlie bi ]\Iargaret Stewart, his relict, 
Qnhome. with ^Martha, Margaret and Elizabeth Knoxis, his 
dochteries, he, vponn the xiij day of Maii, in his later will vnder- 
written, nominal his executonris testamcntaris, as the samin of 
the dait foirsaid beiris. 

''In tlie first, the said vmquhile Johnne grantit him to haif 
had. tlio tyme foirsaid, tua sylver drinking cowpis merkit with 
J. K. M. on the one side, and on the vther syde with E. B. X., 
contening xxv vnces or thairby; tua salt fatts of sylver, of xiiij 
vnce vecht and ane half; auchtene sylver spvnes, contening xx 
vnce wecht and a quarter — price of the vnce, xxvj^ viij^. Summa, 
Ifoureskoir pundis. Off the quhilk silver work above written, the 
airchip is to be deducit and taken of. 

'"Item — The said Margaret, ane of the sadis executouris, 
grantit that the said vmquhile Johnne had, the tyme of his deceis 
foirsaid, in pois ane hundretht pundis. 

"Item, his buikis, alswell vponn the Scriptures as vthir pro- 
pliane authoris, wortht vjxx and xli. 

"Item, in vtensile and domicile, the airschip being deducit, 
to the availl of xxxli. Summa. inventarii — ij'^ Ixxxxvjli vj^ viij*'. 

"Ffollowis the dettis awing to the deid : Item, yair wes awing 

a The Reformer's will was dated 13 May, 1572. 



2() The Knox Family. 

to the said vniquhile Johnne, the tyme of his deeeis foirsaid, be 
Andro, Lord Stewart of Vchiltrie, his guid-fader, the sowme of 
Ixxx" of lent money. Item, be William Fiddes, baxter xli, 
restand awand to the said vmquhile Johnne, of quheit quhilk he 
ressavit to gif breid for. Item, be x\gnes Weymis, relict of 
vmquhile Andro Mernis, cietiner of St. Androis, xix" xj^ i"* j^**; 
for the rest of beir quhilk scho ressavit fra the said vmquhile 
Johnne. Item, restand awand to the said vmquhile Johnne, the 
tyme foirsaid, for ane pairt of his pensionn quhilk he had furth 
of the Kirk of Hadingtoun, he the persones following, the vic- 
tuales vnder-written of the zeiris and cropes rex"^ vnderspecifeit, 
viz.. of the crope and zeir of God i™ Y" LXXJ zeiris, be James 
Fiddes, for ane pairt of his teyndis of the Nunland, Hand in the 
parochin of Hadingtoun, ane boll of quheit, ane boll ane firlote 
beir, vij bollis aittis. 

"Be Adame Ethingtoun in Quhitrig, ane boll of quheit, sex 
bollis aittis. Price of the boll of quheit the said zeir, P; price 
of the boll of l)eir the said zeir, twa merkis; and price of the 
boll of aittis the samin zeir, xx% Summa, xix", xiij^, iiij*^. 

[Several pages of the will are omitted here.] 

"Followis the latterwill and legacie; Lord Jesus, I commend 
my trublit spreit in thy protectionn and defence, and thy trou- 
blit Kirk to thy mercie. Becaus I haif had to do with dyvers 
personages of the ministrie, quhairunto God of his mercie erectit 
me within this realme, my devoetie cravis that I sail leve vnto 
thaim now ane testimony of my mynd. And first, vnto the 
Papistis and to the vnthankfull warld I say, that althocht my 
lyfe hes bene vnto thaim odious, and that oftintymes thai haif 
socht my destructionn and the destruction of the Kirk, quhilk 
God of his mercie he's plantit within this realme, and has alwayis 
preservit and kepit the siamin fra thair crewale interprysis, zet 
to thaim I am compellit to say that onles thai spedele repent, my 
depairting of this lyfe sal be to thaim the gretest calamitie that 
evir yit hes apprehend it thaim. Sum small appearance thai mai 
yit haif in my lyfe gif thai haif grace to se. Ane deid man haif 
I bene almaist thir twa zeiris last bipast, and yit I wald that thai 



Will of John Knox, the I^efoumer. '27 

suld rypolie considder in quhat bettir estait thai and thair ma- 
teris standis in than it hes done befoir; and thai haif hard of 
long tyme befojr troatnit; hot becaus thai will not admit nio for 
ane admoniser, I gif thaim ovir to the judgment of him quha 
knawis the hartis of all, and will disclose the secretis thairof in 
dew time ; and this far to the Papistis. 

"My executouris I mak, constitute, and ordane ^largaret 
Stewart, my spous; Martha, Margaret, and Elizabeth Knoxis, my 
dochteries, and the faithfull to be oursmen. To my twa sones, 
Xathanaell and Eleazare Knoxis, I vnfenedlic leif that same 
benedictioim that thair darrest moder, Marjorie Bows, left vnto 
thaim — to wit, that God, for His Sone Christ Jesus' saik, wald 
of His mercie mak thaim His trew feireris, and als upricht wor- 
sehipperis of Him as ony that evir sprang out of Abrahame's 
loynes, quhairts now as than, I fra my trublit hart say, amen. 

"Ffarther, I half delyverit be Maister Kandulphe to Mr. 
Robert Bows, Shereff of the bischoprik, and bruder to the said 
Marjorie, my vmquhile darrest spous, the sowme of fyve hun- 
dreth pundis of Seottis money, to the vtiltie and proffett of my 
sadis twa sones; the quhilk money is that pairt of substance that 
fell or pertenit to thaim be the deeeis of Mariorie Bows, thair 
moder, of blessit memory, and augmentit be me as I mycht or 
may spair to mak out the said sowme, for I ressavit of thairis bot 
ane hundreth merkis sterling, quhilk I of my povirtie extendit 
to fyve hundretht pundis Seottis, and that in contentatioun of 
thair bairnis pairt of geir quhilkis may fall to thaim be my 
deeeis. 

"Item, I lief to my saidis twa sones twa sylver drinking cowpis. 
The ane of thaim merkit with J. K. M. on ane syde, and on the 
vther syde E. B. N. Item, I leif also to my saidis sones ane pairt 
of my saidis buikis, of the avail of xxxli. And failzeing of my 
saidis sones and thair airis, I ordane the foirsadis fyve hundretht 
pundis, with the sylver cuipis, spvnes, salt fattis, and buikis, to 
return agane as eftir follows; that is "to say, the ane equale haif 
thairof to the said Margaret,- my spous, and my sadis thre doch- 
teries, and the vther half of the samin to my bruder, William 
Knox, and his airis quhatsumevir. 



28 The Kxox Family. 

"Item, I leif to my said spous, Margaret Stewart, the audit 
hundretht merkis qubilkis ar laid vpoun tlie landis of Penny- 
moir, quhairin scho is infeft be Andro, Lord Stewart Ychiltrie, 
my fader-of-law ; and failzeing of the said Margaret, I leif the 
samin to my thre dochteris; and failzeing of thaim, I leif the 
samin to the said Andro, Lord Stewart of Vcheltrie, and his 
airis quhatsumevir, chargeing and requyring my said fader-of- 
law and his airis, as thai will answer befoir that incorruptible 
Juge, the Lord Jesus, that thai suffer not my sad spous and chil- 
dren to be defraudit or evill pay it of the males and annual rent 
of the said landis during the nonredemptioun of the samin. 

"Item. I leif to Paul Knox my bruder sone, ane hundretht 
pundis, quhilk lyis in wodset vpoun Kobert Campbell's landis in 
Kynzeanclencht, and quhairin the said Paule is ellis infeft, and 
that to be ane hel}) to hald him at the senilis. 

"And as concerning the rest of my haill guidis quhatsumevir, 
I leif to be dividit betwix my sad spous and my thre dochteries; 
and becaus my said spous man tak the cair of my sadis dochteries, 
and faithfullie travell for thair guid nurishment and vpbringing, 
thairfoir I leif my said spous the vse of thair geir, quhill thai be 
mareit or cum to perfite age, at quhilk tyme I ordane thaim every 
ane, as the tyme approaches, to half thair awin that to thaim 
apperteins. 

"Sic Subscribitur, Johne Knox; N. L., Johne Adamesoun, 
witnes; Ko' Watsoun, witnes; Johne Johnestoun, witnes. 

"Quotta gratis. The quote of this testament is gevin gratis 
at speceale command of my lordis commissaris." 



[Notes copied f!om a book of the Library of Congress. .4. Gen'l De- 
scription of the Shire of Renfreic. By George Crawford, 1710.] 

Eenfrew, Eenfrewshire, is on the Eiver Clyde, seven miles 
from Glasgow and three miles from Paisley. 

Eenfrew was a royal burgh. At Eenfrew the Lord High 
Steward of Scotland had a castle, the chief manor of this fair 
barony. This was erected into a royalty by King Eobert III. 



Will of John Knox, the Kkiohmeh. 29 

in the fourteenth year of his reign. King Kobert iiiin?olf re- 
sided at the castle. 

The ancient estate of the family of Knox lies between Renfrew 
and Paisley, one and a half miles from each, and is the property 
of Archibald Campbell, Esq., of Blytheswood, and has been in 
his family a considerable time. The Campbells came in pos- 
session of it by intermarriage wit'h the Knoxes. 

The Mures intermarried with the noble houses of Eglintoun, 
Temple, Yalyfield, Ronallan, Knox of Eanfurly, and many 
others. 



CHAPTER IV. 
JoHX Knox, Immigrant, and Jean Knox's Will. 

JOHX KXOX, emigrant progenitor, represented by the trunk 
of OUT Knox Family Tree, was a native of Scotland, born 
about the year 1708. The exact locality of his birthplace is not 
certainly known. Some of the descendants on two different 
branches have it .by tradition that Eenfrewshire was his native 
place. He went from Scotland to Ireland, with other Scotch 
emigrants, by invitation of the King of England, to constitute a 
balance of power against the insurgent Irish Catholics. He 
married an Irish Presbyterian wife, Miss Jean Gracy, whose 
mother's name was Jean Sinclair.* They emigrated to America 
(from Coleraine, Ireland) about 1740, in company with his 
brother-in-law, Patrick Gracy, and others. It is "thought that he 
first settled in Pennsylvania before coming South to Carolina. 
He was one of the early settlers of Rowan county, X. C. He 
bought six hundred acres of land on the south side of Third 
Creek for £37, 10s., which land had been granted by Earl Gran- 
ville to James Stuart. 

[Most of this information was furnished by Rev. James Knox, 
who drew up the original sketch.] 

Some have gotten the idea that, for some service rendered the 
Englisli government, this old Knox ancestor obtained a land 
warrant for six hundred acres and located it in Rowan county. 
We cannot vouch for the correctness of this. The writer has in 
her possession old land deeds and other papers, in pieces with 
age — one conveying land from Earl Granville to James Stuart, 
with the Earl's seal athxed, and signed by his agents, Francis 
Oorbin and Joshua Bodley; another from Stuart to John Knox, 
yeoman. 



a A relative of the mother of John Knox, the Reformer, who was a 
Sinclair. 



Joirx Kxox, Emiocaxt. 31 

We know very little of the life and character of this ancestor, 
John Knox. An old paper gotten np and signed hy sevei-al of his 
neighbors or friends as a certificate of recommendation ''to show 
as he traveled southerly, selling some of his horses," certifies that 
he was a man of worth and int'egrity. We conclude, almost l)e- 
yond a doubt, that he was a Presbyterian, from the name he bore, 
and having married a Presbyterian wife, and also that he was 
laid to rest in a Presbyterian burial ground. We inquired of the 
clerk of session of Thyatira Churcii, where he and his wife were 
buried, to know if their names were on the church roll there. He 
replied that "the old records of that church were destroyed l)y 
fire about 1S2(J. Though he thinks it very likely that they were 
both members of Thyatira Church, says those old Scotch people 
were noted for their CJiristiaiiiti/. They brought their religion 
with them, and it is not likely they would forsake it when they 
came to this country.'" Indeed, it may be possible that ])€rse- 
cution drove them from the mother country. 

We are informed by the family of ''Knox the Hatter" that 
they have old letters and pai>ers which show that the Knox 
family from Glasgow and Julinburgh, and from the Xorth of 
Ireland, are of one family, and were persecuted on account of 
tlieir religion, some of them having to leave their homes in the 
night. Coleraine, where, as we have it, our Knox people came 
from, is in the extreme north of Ireland. 

Toward the end of the seventeenth century the disputes be- 
tween the Presbyterians, or Covenanters, and the representatives 
of tiie Church of England were marked with great intolerance, 
to which was added the Stuart uprising. Many a peace-loving 
Scotchman grew weary of such continual strife, and began to 
seek freedom of conscience and other blessings in the American 
colonies of the new world. 

While engaged in this work we have frequently been asked 
whether this John Knox was a descendant of John Knox the 
Reformer. We conclude that he was not. As we learn from 
JMcCries' Life of Knox; and also from Genealogical Memoirs of 
John Knox and ihc Family of Knox, by Rogers, that his two 
sons both died without issue, consequently the family of the 



33 The Knox Family. 

Keformer was extinct in the male line. The daughters married 
into other family naipes, as may be seen from the genealogy of 
John Knox the Eeformer, in another chapter. Some of our line 
have it by tradition that we are descended from William Knox, 
the brother of the Scottish Reformer, though we have not suc- 
ceeded in tracing the connection. 

We had search made in the Rowan county records for old 
wills, etc., and find one of Jcane Knox, which we coppy below. 



Will of Jeane Knox, 

Nov. ^Co^ 1772. 

In the name of God, Amen, the thirteenth of Subtember, one 
thousand seven hundred & seventy-twoo, I, Jeane Knox, in the 
parish of St. Luck, in the County of Rowan, in North Carolina, 
being through the aboundant mercy & goodness of God, though 
weak in body, yet of sound understanding & memory, blessed be 
(xod for the same. Do ordann & appoint this my last Will & Tes- 
tament, and order and desire that it may be resaved by all whom 
it may concern as such. 

Imprimis, I most humbly bequeath my soul to God my maker 
and Redeemer, and satifier beseeching his most gracious accep- 
tence of it, through the merits of my compassinat Saviour, Jesus 
Christ, who gave himself an atonement for my sins & is abel to 
save to the uttermost all that come unto God by him, seeing he 
ever liveth to make Intercession for them, in whom I trust he 
will not reject me a returning penitent when I come to him for 
mercy. In this hope and confidence I render up my soul with 
comfort, humbly beseaching the most glorious Trinity, one eter- 
nal God, to prepare me for the time of my dissolution, & that he 
take me to himself into that peace & rest which he hath prepared 
for all those that love & fear his holy name, Amen. 

Witnesseth. Imprimis, I give my body to the earth from 
when it was taken, in full assurance of its Resurrection -from 
thence at the laste Day; & for my burial I desire it may be 
desent, without form, at the discretion of my executors, herein- 



Jeax Kxox's Will. 33 

after montioucd, who I do not doubt will nuinago it with pru- 
dence & gravity. 

And as to my worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to 
blis mo, I will positively order the same in the following maner 
t!v: Form : after payment of all my Octets & funeral Expence, 
Item, I absolutely give & bequeth, devis & demis unto my well 
beloved youngest son, Benjamin Kno.x, one negro man child 
named Jacob, & the yong black Hors, sadil & Bridel, as also my 
own Bed that I now ly on, with all the sheets, bolsters, & blankits 
that belongs to it, & two cows and calfes, to wit, Brindel & Twin. 
Also one plow, with the Irons and all Tackling belonging to it, 
& the big pot & littel pot, & the chist & dogh chest, cheeck Real 
& Gridel, & ax. and I alow my negro wench to be his for four 
years after my Deseas, & then to be sold by my execntors, to the 
purpose hereinafter directed. I alow the Quit Kent of this place 
to be paid to this present Beat, all the above as it stands sta-ted 
to him & his heirs forever. 

Item, I give, devise, and demis unto my well beloved son Jo- 
seph one pot & puter bason to him & his heirs forever. Item, I 
give, devis, & demis & bequeth unto my well beloved daughter, 
Mary Eosbrough, all my own clothing, of every kind, to her and 
her heirs forever. 

As for my corn & foder & wheat, and beef stear and hogs, I 
alow for the use of my four sons whet they keep in this hous to 
be for the use of them all; & I do alow, after all my debts & 
funeral charges is paid, the money arising from the diferent 
sales of goods & the sale of the wench above mentioned, Avhen she 
is to be sold, to be equally divided between my sons Samuel, 
James, Joseph and Benjamin and to them and their heirs for- 
ever; & I do heareby constute & apoint .my well beloved sons, 
"Samuel Knox & Benjamin Knox, Executors of this my last Will 
and Testament; and I do utterly revock, disanull and every way 
forbid, gainsay & disalow, all former & other Wills or Codicils 
to wills by me heretofore maid; and I do now ratify, declare & 
confirm, this my last Will & Testament. In witness' whereof I 
have hereunto set my Hand & affixed my seal the day, month and 
veare first within writen. 



34 The Kxox Family. 

Signed, sealed, published and declared, by the s^ Jean Knox, 
to be her last Will & Testament, in the presence of us the sub- 
scribers. 

Henry Chambers. Jiei'. 

John Graham. Jean [X] Kxox (Seal). 

John Kerr. mark. 

[By comparing dates, the above will must have been made 
only a few d'ays previous to the death of the testator. This may 
account for "her mark." She died Septeml:>er 18, 1772, we learn 
from the inscription on her tombstone.] 

John^ Knox, emigrant, and wife, Jean Gracy Knox, had seven 
sons and one daughter, viz., William, Samuel, James. Absalom. 
John, Joseph, Benjamin and ]\[ary. 

W^e are not informed as to the order in which they come. In 
the mother's will Benjamin is called the youngest son, and the 
date of his birth, 1759, is gotten from the pension roll, or cen- 
sus of pensions, at Raleigh, N. C. It is thouglit by some of the 
descendants of William Knox, that he was the eldest. 

From the records sent in on the several branches, we gather 
that these sons all took part in the revolution. Of which further 
details will be given under each head, or name. 

John^ Knox died 1758. 

In the old Thyatira Church graveyard, Eowan county, among 
the old graves we find a small tombstone, now overgrown with 
moss, and blackened with age, bearing the following inscription : 

"John Knox, died October 12, 

1758, age 50 years. 

Also 

Jean Knox, his wife, died September 18, 

1772, age 64." 

The clerk of session of Thy^atira Church has the old deed of 
land on which the church now stands, given in 1753, alx)ut five 
years before John Knox's death. So that we inwgine there are 
but a few graves antedating his in that cemetery. 



Jean Knox's Will. 35 

Department of the State Atditor, 
Ealeigh X. C. 

This is to certify that there appears on the Revolutionary 
records of this department, pay rolls, etc., the following: 

Army accounts. Vol. VIII., Books E-F, No. 2 and 11, for 
cash paid by' Jacob Blount, paymaster, to the officers and sol- 
diers of the North Carolina Brigade, as follows (No. 2, F) : 

Page C)2. Voucher 1559, June, 17T9, George Knox. 

Page 62. Voucher 1G08, March, 1777, Samuel Knox. 

Page ()2. Voucher 1619, January, , Samuel Knox. 

Page 77. Voucher 2070, March. 1776, Capt. William Knox. 

The name of Capt. William Knox appears several times. 

Page 78. Voucher 2093, February, 1776, John Knox. 

The name of John Knox also appears in several places. 

These men were soldiers in active sesvice. 

(Seal) B. F. Dixon^ Auditor. 

Later. — I had other researches to make, and came across the 
following, which you may insert in that* certificate I send you: 
"Page 34, Book No. 2, Public Accounts," a payment made to 
"Absalom Knox." The name "James Knox" was also found on 
page 34, same volume. (Mrs.) Fannie W. Smith, Aud. Dept. 

Patrick Gracy. 

Tlie following sketch of Patrick Gracy, brother-in-law to John Knox, 
emigrant, was furnished by two of his great-granddaughters, Mre. 
I. R. Alexander, of Mooresville, and Mrs. Dr. J. R. B. Adams, of 
Statesville. N. C. 

Patrick Gracy was born in Ireland, in 1700; emigrated to 
America, with his sister, Jean and John Knox, in 1740. 

It is thought he married in this country. Mrs. Adams says 
he married a Miss Rebecca Barnett, while Mrs. Alexander in- 
forms us that he married a Miss Hall, daughter of Rev. James 



36 The Knox Family. 

Hall, of Eevolutionary fame.'' It is suggested that he may have 
inarried a second time. 

They came over in a sail vessel. The winds being unfavorable, 
they were three months on the ocean, and ran short of water and 
provisions. 

It is said that Patrick wore a pair of new buckskin pants that 
were rather tight for him when he left Ireland, but lapped over 
considerably when they landed in America. 

Patrick Gracy reared a large family of children. Three of 
the sons' names were William, Eobert and Joseph. Eobert lived 
near Cool Springs. He was Mrs. Adams' grandfather. 

One of the daughters of Patrick Gracy and her babe were 
scalped by the Indians. His daughter, Eleanor Gracy, married 
a Templetbn. Their son, Gracy Templeton, lived to be ninety- 
four years of age. Two of the daughters lived in the mountains 
of North Carolina, near Pleasant Gardens. One of them mar- 
ried a Logan ; the other a Cashion. One of the Logan daughters 
married a Greenlee of Turkey Cove. 

Mrs. Thomas Bailey, of Mocksville, Xorth Carolina, informs 
us that Patrick Gracy's mother's name was Jean Sinclair. She 
was a descendant. 

He settled near the head waters of Back Creek, in what was 
then Eowan county (now Iredell), North Coralina, some three 
miles northeast of Mooresville. And ended his days there in 
1810, at the extreme age of one hundred and ten years. 

Mrs. Alexander says of him, "I remember to hear my father 
say that Patrick Gracey rode horseback a distance of seven miles, 
to visit his daughter, my grandmother, just -six weeks before he 
died. He must have been a remarkably strong man to have 
made the journey on horseback at such an advanced age. 

He was a great lover of coffee, which was considered a luxury 
in those days. His daughter would always try to give him coffee 
when he visited her, and on handing back his cup for a second 
time he would exclaim, as the cup was being filled nearly full, 
"That's a vast, that's a vast, Xellie." He had the Irish brogue, 

' ^ 

b He was a minister, and commanded a regiment of North Carolina 
troops. 



Patrick Gracy. 37 

of course. He was a good man. Bibles were very scarce in those 
daysj so he often would take his Bible and go among his neigh- 
bors, reading the Scriptures to them. 

He was a member of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, and 
brought his certificate of meml>ership with him. When he pre- 
sented it to the pastor of church at Centre, Dr. jMcRea, he pro- 
nounced it all right. 

It is said that when Patrick Gracy was buried they had to take 
axes and cut out the trees to make a road to the graveyard, there 
being only paths. 

The following is the inscription found on his tombstone, in 
Centre graveyard, near ]\Iooresville. 

"Sacred to the memory of 

PATRICK GRACY, 

who departed this life January 9, 1810, aged 110 years. 

"The busy scene of life is closed, 
The body's laid in calm repose; 
The happy soul has gone to rest. 
Reclining on its Saviour's breast. 

" An active, useful life is o'er, 
And sin shall ne'er disturb it more; 
Where cares no more shall spoil its peace, 
It shall enjoy eternal rest. 

" 'Tis but a few whose days amount 
To five score years and ten ; 
And all beyond that same account 
Are sorrow, toil and pain." 

Since the above sketch was written we gather the following 

items : 

Patrick Gracy's mother, Jean Sinclair, was a relative of the 
mother of John Knox, the Reformer, who was a Sinclair. 

Joseph Gracy, one of the sons of Patrick Gracy, moved to 
East Tennessee. Some of his descendants now live in Clarks- 
ville, Tenn. 



CHAPTER V. 
William Knox and Descendants. 

WILLIAM- KXOX, son of John^ Knox, emigrant, and 
wife, Jean Gracy Knox, was bo}-n in Ireland, as some 
of his descendant's have it by tradition, and camo to America 
with his parenits in the year K40. It is thought that they lived 
some time in Pennsylvania before coming to Xorth Carolina. 
The deseend'antis als'o say that their ancestor, William Knox, be- 
came heir to a tract of land that was granted to his father in 
the old country, and that they located it in Eowan connty, X. C, 
and settled upon it. They say that during the Irish rebellion 
quite a number of Knoxes came irom Scotland to Ireland, and 
for some service rendered the English government, some of them 
obtained a land warrant for six hundred acres of land. If Wil- 
liam was the eldest son of the family, as is supposed, and the 
old English law in regard to settling estates prevailed in Xorth 
Carolina at that time, the oldest son would be heir to the whole 
of the real estate. And this nuiy account for the absence of any 
mention of real estate in Jean Knox's will. 

William Kniox lived in what is now western Rowan county, 
hear tlie waters of Third Creek, where Mr. Jim Knox, his great- 
grandson, now resides. He died there, and was buried in Thya- 
tira Cemetery. He, and at least one son, Benjamin, were sol- 
diers in the Revolution. It is said that William was a captain. 
(See official certificate from the State Auditor, on page 35.) 
William Knox married a Miss Allen — given name not known. 

They had four sons and thrc^ daughters, namely: 1 John, 
2 William, 3 Benjamin, 4 James; names of daughters not 
known. Two of the girls married two brothers, John and James 
Barclay. One of the Barclays had a son named Henry. Another 
daughter of William Knox married a Mr. Reed (or Reedy), and 
it is said these three sifters were all living in Rutherford county. 




JOHN T- KNox, S^N BERNARDINO, caL. 



William Knox and Descendants. 39 

Tenn.. in 1810. We have not succeeded in finding any of their 
descendants. 

1 John^ Knox, eldest son of William Knox and wife, Miss 
Allen, was born in Kowau county, N. C. He married Esther 
Luckey, possibly a sister to tlie wife of his uncle, Samuel Knox, 
Sr. Left Xorth Carolina about 1785, and settled in Bourlx)n 
county, Ky. It is probable he went with the Luckies, his father- 
in-law, and others of the Luckey family. A brother, wliose name 
was William, went with John. And about the same time the two 
sisters w.ho married the Barclays settled in Rutherford county, 
Tenn. John lived in Kentucky until his oldest children were 
grown, when he sold his home in the Blue-grass regions of Ken- 
tucky, and removed to Ohio. From there he went to Lxliana, 
where he and his wife died. IVo of his sons, Joseph and Eobert, 
married and settled not far from Indianapolis; William, the 
eldest son, went to Tennessee. 

John^ Knox and wife, Esther Luckey, had eight children : 
1 William, 2 John, 3 Xancy, 4 Margaret,, 5 Benjamin, 6 Joseph, 
7 Robert, 8 Amy. 

1 William* Knox, eldest son of John^ Knox and Esther 
Luckey, was born in Xorth Carolina. He married ^largaret 
Thompson, in 1809. She was also a North Carolinian by birth, 
born in ilecklenburg county. Her mother's maiden name was 
Martha Dunn. Issue:. 

1 John^ T. Knox, of San Bernardino, Cal., eldest son of 
William Knox, and wife, Margaret Thompson, was born Octo- 
ber 21, 1810, at Ready Mills, on Stone River, in Rutherford 
countv, Tenn. His father was at that time overseer for Charles 
Ready. In 1812 he volunteered under General Jackson, sick- 
ened and died in the army in 1813, and was buried near Hunts- 
ville, Ala. ]\Ir. John T. says after the death of his father, his 
mother returned to her father's home; in 1818 she moved with 
her father to southern Illinois, where he was brought up. In 
1832 he cast his first vote for Jackson, and ever after was a 
strong Jackson man and a whole-souled democrat. In 1832 he 
volunteered in the Black Hawk Indian War; after returning 
from the war he married Miss Sarah Mvra Gamer. From 1837 



40 The Knox Family. 

to 1852 he ran a store. In 1852 he removed to Sacramento City, 
and resided there until I860. From there to Wasihington Terri- 
tory, where he acted as school-master on an Indian reservation ; 
was afterwards appointed agent on same reservation. In 1873 
returned to California, and settled in San Bernardino, where he 
was still living in 1899, when he sends the writer this brief 
sketch of his life. For twenty years he iserved as justice of the 
peace, and two years as postmaster during Mr. Cleveland's first 
term. He says his life has been a long one, and the pathway 
rather rough, but now the end of the journey must be near, and 
though he had accumulated little of this world's goods, had 
always tried to live up to the Golden Eule, "Do to others as you 
would have them do to you." 

In April, 1898, his wife died, they having lived together sixty- 
four 3-ears. She and the youngest daughter were Methodists; 
other members of the family belonged to other denominations. 
He seems much interested in the history of the Knox family; 
took a copy of the genealogical tree some 3'ears ago ; was highly 
pleased with it; bad kno\vn so little about his Knox kin, his 
father having died when he was only three years old. He says 
one of the sons of Jolm Barclay wrote him, from his home in 
Tennessee, in 18-14, just after the election of James K. Polk, and 
informed him that his (John T.'s) father and President Polk 
were cousins. In July, 1902, he sent one of his pictures, and 
with it five dollars to cover the expense of having it inserted in 
the Knox book ; was living at that time with his son-in-law, E. T. 
Blow, in Los Angeles, Cal. Though in his ninety-second year, 
he writes a remarkably plain, nice letter for one of his age. 
John' T. Knox and wife had seven children, as follows : 
1 William, 2 Amanda J., 3 Robert, 4 Fanny E., 5 Marv E., 
6 Mary C, 7 Kate. 

1 William® Knox, dead. 

2 Amanda* J. Knox, married twice: first, Charles A. Leake; 
second, T. Webb. 

Issue. 

1 John^ Denner l^eake. 

2 Charles'' William Leake, married Minnie Morrow; one 
child, Marv* Lona I^ake. 



William Knox and Descendants. 41 

By Second ]\Iauriage. 

1 Robert' Douglas Webb, married Alice Spear. 

Issue. 

1 Laurent" Knox Webb. 

2 Dora' Edna Webb. 

2 Sarah^ Esther Webb, married Thomas Bordeaux. 

Issue. 
1 Knox" Theofield Bordeaux. 

3 Samuel' Webb. 

4 Dora' Webb. 

5 Thomas' W. Webb. 



3 Eol^erf^ D. Knox, died, without issue. 

4 Fannie" E. Knox, married Mr. Hale ; had six children ; 

1 William' S. Hale, married Emma Eule. 

Issue. 

1 Eaymond" Hale. 

2 DelP Hale. 

2 Albert' Knox Hale, married Jessie Whitlock. 

Issue. 

1 Elsworth^" Hale. 

2 licroy* Hale. 

3 Cora' W. Hale, married Frank Hitchcock. 

Issue. 

1 Fred*" Hitchcock. 

2 Susan' Frances Hitchcock. 

3 William' Hitchcock. 

4 Henrv' Hitchcock. 



42 The Knox Family. 
•i Frank'' Hale, married Marie . 



Issue. 
1 Clifford^ Hale. 

5 Alioe^ ]\IaiKl Hale, married Hugh L. Bryan. 

Issue. 
1 Clyde^ Bryan. 

6 Kate^ Hale. 



o Mary® Elizabeth Knox, died very young. 
G Mary" Caroline Knox, died without issue. 
7 Kate*' Knox, married K. T. Blow, Los Angeles, Cal. 

Issue. 

1 Harry^ Pridam Blow. 

2 Emma' Roberta Blow. 

3 Lillys F. Blow. 

The Blow family, we learn, are fine musicians. 



2 Rol^ert^ Luckey Knox (brother to John T. Knox), born 
1812; died young. 

2 John* Knox, ^second son of John Knox and wife Esther 
Luckey, married Bettie McDaniel ; had seven children : 

1 Esther^ Knox. 

2 Martha^ Knox, married Peter Baxter, lived in Indianapolis, 
Indiana. 

Issue. 

1 Maria*' Baxter. 

2 George® Baxter. 

3 Knox® Baxter. 



3 Willianr' Knox; went west. 

4 Delia'^ Knox, married Orlando H. Clifford. 

Issue. 

1 Maria® Clifford. 

2 Henry® Clifford. 

3 :\rortimer® Clifford. 

4 John® Clifford. 



William Knox axd Descendants. 43 



5 Henry' Knox. 

C SamueP Knox. 

7 John^ Liickey Knox. 



3 NancV* Knox, daughter of J. K. and Esther Luckey, mar- 
ried Steven Pangburn. 

4 Margaret* Knox, never married. 

5 Benjamin* Knox, son of John Knox and wife Esther 
Luckey, was born 1790, married December 25, 1835, Nancy 
Cheat, who was born .\ugust 30, 1800. They went from Ten- 
nessee to. Missouri. He died in 18G4; she in 1877. Had four 
children : 

1 John^ A. C. Knox, never married; gave his life in defense 
of the losif cause at the battle of Corinth, Mississippi. 

2 Eobert^ Benjamin Knox, died aged four years. 

3 Margaret^ E. Knox, married I^eonard Tarr, reside in Cald- 
well county, j\Io. ; No living children. 

4 Joseph^ I^eonidas Knox was born May 23, 1845; married 
Sarah J. Cheshier (March 4, 1875), who was born August 31, 
1845. They resided at Ridgeway, Mo., until the spring of 1893, 
when they removed to Goldendale, Washington. In 1901 his 
address was Lucas, Washington. He, or his father, had kept a 
family record, which enabled him to give the genealogy of his 
branch. He bought a copy of the Knox tree in 1893. In writing 
to his cousin, John K., of Sigourney, Iowa, on the subject, 
he adds, "However, say to the Goodman lady that our branch of 
the family is strictly straight goods — none have ever climbed 
very high up the ladder of fame, but for honesty and integrity 
they cannot be excelled." 

Issue. 

1 Benjamin^ Knox, bom February 21, 1876. 

2 William^ Knox, bom Ma5^ 26, 1878. 

3 Lura« Eleanor Knox, '■born April 11, 1880. 

4 Ed.gar« Allen Knox, bom May 15, 1883. 
Katie^ Knox, born September 29, 1886. 

Residence, Harrison county. Mo. 



44 The Knox Family. 

6 Joseph^ Knox, son of John Knox and Estlner Lucke}-, mar- 
ried Sarah McLaughlin. In early manhood Joseph K., with hi? 
brother, Eober't, and a cousin, John, son of their uncle, William 
K., each bought eighty acres of land in the deep woods, forty 
miles east of Indianapolis, adjoining each other. They built 
small log cabins on their lands in 1825, and moved their families 
into them. Although they were a long ways separated from their 
people, and were very poor, yet they were proud of their name 
and their Knox blood, and still retained some of the Scotch 
clanishness. The three lived there side by side almost as one 
family for fifteen years. The first year they each cleared a small 
piece of land, and planted it in corn ; the next year each of them 
had a little field of wheat. They all worked together, harvesting 
stacking and threshing wheat. It happened that John's wheat 
stack caught fire and burned up. It was indeed a sad loss to 
John and his numerous family, but Joseph and Robert told 
them, "Don't take trouble over your loss; as long as we have 
wheat your family shall have wheat bread to eat too." This 
little incident is to show what manner of men they were. This, 
with other valuable information, was furnished by Mr. John 
Knox, of Sigourney, Iowa, son of Joseph Knox. Joseph and 
Robert sold their land in Indiana, and moved to Livingstone 
county. Mo. Their brother Benjamin also left Tennessee and 
joined them in Missouri, and their sister Amy, the youngest of 
the family, also lived and died in the same county. 

Joseph* Knox and wife, Sarah McLaughlin, had ten children : 
1 Nancy, 2 John, 3 Margaret, 4 George, 5 William, 6 Esther A., 
7 AmVj 8 Susannah, 9 Benjamin, 10 Francis M. 

1 Nancy' Knox, married N. B. Clifford ; had eight children : 

1 Euphemia® Clifford, married Seanard, and went to 

Kansas. 

2 James« Knox Polk Clifford; dead. 

3 Benton« T. Clifford. 

4 Jasper^ Newton Clifford; went west. 

5 Simon® Kenton Clifford; dead. 

6 Esther^ Clifford. 

7 Buchanan" Clifford. 

8 Corrine" Clifford. 



William Kxox and Desckndants. 45 

2 John"' Knox, eldest son of Joseph Knox and wifo, Sarah 
McLauglilin, married Cordelia Jacobi?? Resides near Si<:oiirncy, 
Iowa. The writer is indebted to this cousin, John Knox, for 
mnch of tlie data for his grandfather branch. He takes great 
interest in the history of the Knox family. Bought a copy of 
the Knox tree in 1894. At that time he was sevent3'-three years 
of age; was still living in April, 1901. It was from him we 
learn the name of the place in Ireland from which our Knox,, 
ancestors came when they emigrated to America. It was Cole- 
rainej in North Ireland. 

Issue. 

1 Benjamin'"' Franklin Knox, Saticoy, California, married 
Pacific Isabelle Greentree. 

Issue. 

1 Alice" Knox. 

3 Henry^ Clay Knox. 

2 Tho. Jefferson*^ Knox, married Lottie E. Shanafelt. 

Issue. 

1 Anna" Knox, Los Angeles, California. 

2 Eda" Knox, Los Angeles, California. 

These two daughters, we learn, are very fine musicians. 

3 Martha** Jane Knox, married Hiver Dorman. 

Issue. 

1 Otho^ Dorman. 

2 Lois' Dorman. 

3 Oris" Dorman. 

4 Lottie^ Dorman. 

5 Jesse' Dorman. 

6 Ijouisa'^ Dorman. 

7 Alice" Dorman, Ritsville, "Washington. 

4 Henry** Clay Knox, died 1871 ; aged twenty-one years. 

5 John^ Luckey Knox, married Ada Baker Lavitt. 



46 The Kxox Family. 

Issue. 

1 Florence" Knox. 

2 Chester" Baker Knox. 

3 Bernard" Lavitt Knox. 

4 John^ Clifford Knox. 

5 Theodore" Raymond Knox. 
C Miriam' Cordelia Knox. 

7 Dora'^ Davis Knox, Saticoy, California. 

6 Mary^ Ellen Knox, married Charles S. Duvall. 

Issue. 

1 Elmer' Duvall. 

2 Lawrence' Duvall. 

3 Melvin" Duvall, Satiooy, California. 

7 Alice** Knox, married Theodore E. White. 

Issue. 

1 Addie' White. 

2 Lottie" White. 

3 John^ F. White. 

4 Margaret" White. Address South English, Iowa. 

8 Addie® Knox, married Louis Kracht. (Addie and Alice are 
twins.) 

9 Louisa® M. Knox, married Edward Stockon, Sigourney, la. 

10 Joseph® Hooker Knox, never married; died December, 
1900. (Always made his home with his parents.) 



3 Margaret^ Knox, daughter of Joseph Knox, married Wayne 
Wilcox. 

Issue. 

1 T^nt® Wilcox. 

2 Phinis® E. Wilcox. 

4 George^ Knox, died when .young. 

5 William'' J. Knox, married Jane Wall. 



W^iLLiAM Knox and Descendants. 47 

Issue. 

1 George''' Knox. 

2 Benjamin** Kno.v, dead. 

C Esther'" A. Knox, married Jolin L. Wilcox. 

Issue. 

1 Leonzo" Wilcox. 

2 Mic« Wilcox. 

7 Amy^ Knox, married Levi Moore; had several children; all 
went to Arkansas. 

S Susanna'* Knox, married Ed. Oliver, and went West, per- 
haps to Kansas. 

9 Benjamin-"' Knox. 

10 Francis^ Marion Knox, married Ehoda Haynes; went to 
Arkansas. 



? Eobert* Knox, son of John Knox and wife, Esther Luckey, 
married Jemima Shields; had ten children: 

1 William^ S. Knox, married S. J. Haynes; eight children: 

1 John*^ J. Knox. 

2 Nancy*' A. Knox. 

3 Rev. Robert" B. Knox, a minister of the Campbellite 

jjersuasion. 

4 Andrew*' J. Knox. 

5 Enoch** P. Knox. 

6 Washington** Q. Knox. 

7 Milburn^ Ooo Knox. 

8. Sterling** Price Knox. (All reside in Texas.) 

2 John"' Knox, died in infancy. 

3 Johnathan'* S. Knox, married Emily Frizzell. 

Issue. 

1 Mary** C. Knox, married Spence Rockholt. 

2 Sarah** J. Knox, married Willis Campbell. 

3 Pinkney** M. Knox, married a Miss Campbell. 

4 Elizabeth Frances Knox 

5 Jane" Knox. 

6 Susie^ Knox. (Reside in Lio Co., Mo.) 



48 The Knox Family. 

4 Benjamin^ F. Kuox, married Eliza Casky. 

Issue. 

1 James" B. Knox. 

2 Henry^ X. Kn'ox. 

3 Robert® ]^e Knox. 

4 Cora® Knox. (Residence, Lio Co., Mo.) 

5 Mary^ Ann Knox, married John Haynes. 

Issue. 

1 Mary® J. Haynes. 

2 Lorenzo® D. Haynes. 

3 Reuben® Haynes. 

4 Joseph® Haynes. 

5 Laura® Haynes. 

6 Ella® Haynes. 

6 Joseph^ Allen Knox, married Bell Stagner; 'dead. Had 
tJiree children, names not known ; live in Oregon. 

7 Esther^ E. Knox, married William Daugherty; one son, 
Joseph Congrave® Daugherty. (Reside in Carrol Co., Mo.) 

8 George^ W. Knox, married Missouri Snaveby; had three 
children. The family all dead. 

9 Robert^ Luckey Knox, married Nancy J." Frizzell. 

Issue. 

1 Emma® Knox. 

2 Arthur® Knox. 

3 Irvin® Knox. 

4 Rosa® Knox. 

5 Levi® Knox. (All reside in Carroll Co., Mo."* 

10 James^ Alfred Knox. 



8 Amy* Knox, daughter of John Knox and Esther Luckey, 
married Milburn Coo. 

Issue. 

1 Esther^ Ann Coo, married Hurdle, Lio Co., Mo. 

2 Xancy^ Jane Coo, married George Oliver. 



William Kxox and Dliscendants. 49 

Issue. 

1 Millard" F. Oliver. 

2 Alice« Oliver. 

3 Leslie" Oliver. 

4 Benjamin" Oliver. (All live in Livingstone Co., Mo.) 

3 William'^ E. Coo, married Miss Maloy. Had three children : 
1 Milbiirn" Coo; names of other two not known. Livingston 
county. Mo. 

2 William^ Knox, Jr., second son of William^ Knox, St., and 
wife Allen, married a Miss Meller. All we can learn of his fam- 
ily is that Ms son John bought land near Indianapolis, in 1825, 
in company with his cousins, Joseph and Robert Knox, sons of 
his uncle, Joseph K. It is thought that he had a numerous 
family. So far we have been unable to find any of them. If any 
of the cousins know anything further of this branch, we would 
be pleased to hear from them. 

SECTION II. 

3 Benjamin^ Knox, third son of William^ Knox, Sr., and wife, 
married Miss Katie Wilson, and lived in Rowan county, N. C, 
where his father before him had lived and died, and where one 
of his grandsons, James Knox, now. lives; which land, it is 
thought, was a part of the 600 acres originally bought and settled 
on by his grandfather, John Knox, emigrant. Benjamin K. was 
a soldier in the Revolution ; must have been quite youthful, as 
his father was also in the army. We have heard incidents of his 
bravery related by some of his descendants, but cannot recall 
them now. 

J. E. W. Department of the Interior, 

8800 Inv. Bureau of Pensions^ 

Rev. War. Washington, D. C, June 2, 1904. 

Madam : In reply to your request for a statement of the mili- 
tary history of Benjamin Knox, a soldier of the Revolutionary 
War, you will find below the desired information as contained in 
his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this 
Bureau. 



50 The Knox Family. 

Date of enli^meni, January, 1780; length of service, three 
months; rank, private; officers under whom service was ren- 
dered, Captain, John Sloan; Colonel, Hamright; State of 
North Carolina. 

Summer, 1780; length of service three months; rank, pri- 
vate ; officers under whom service was rendered. Captain, Joseph 
Graham; Colonel, Dixon; State of North Carolina. 

Also served many other short tours amounting to four months 
not definitely described. 

Battles engaged in, Ramsour's Mills and Cowan Ford; resi- 
dence of soldier at enlistment, Rowan county, N: C; date of 
application for pension, November 19, 1833; residence at date 
of application, Rowan county, N. C. ; age at date of application, 
seventy-two years. Remarks : His claim was allowed. 

Very respectfully, E. T. Ware, Commissioner. 

Miss Hattie S. Ooodman, Statesville, N. C. 

Benjamin^ Knox had twelve children, seven sons and five 
daughters. All lived to be grown and married; most of them 
raised large families. All except Ezekiel and Wilson remained 
in the old North State, N. C. We are not informed as to the 
order in which the children came. 

Issue. 
1 William* Knox, son of Benjamin Knox and wife, Katie 
Wilson, married Jane Niblock, lived in Iredell county, N. C; 
had ten children. 

1 Zilpha^ R. Knox, married a Montgomery, 

Issue. 

1 Lizzie" Montgomery. 

2 Washington® Montgomery. 

3 Kate" Montgomery. 

2 Ceorge^ N. Knox. 

3 Martha^ J. Knox. 

4 Frances' C. Knox, married a Montgomery.' 

5 Eleanor'^ G. Knox, married a Mr. Lazenby. 



William Kxox axd Descendants. 51 

Issue, 

1 Laura" Lazenby. 

2 Loe*^ Lazenbv. 

3 Mamie" Lazenby. Beside in Statesville, X. C. 

6 Benjamin"' R. Knox, married widow Jane Young; one 
daugliter Lizzie" Knox. 

7 William' L. Knox, married Ann Knox, his cousin. Reside 
in Iredell county, X. C. 

Issue. 

1 Lula" C. Knox, married George W. Moore; one son, 

Clarence' Moore. 

2 Marshall" J. Knox. 

3 Hubbard" Allen Knox, studying for the ministry, 
•i Ada Leona" Knox. 

5 Elizabeth" Ann' Knox. 

6 Chalmers" Harrell Knox. 

8 Bert^ Knox, married Mildred Jones. 

Issue. 

1 Ada" Knox. 

2 Anna" Knox. 

3 William" Knox. 

4 Frank" Knox. 

5 Mattie" Knox. 

6 Mary" Knox. 

7 Addie" Knox. 

8 Jessie" Knox. 

9 Bulah" Knox. 
10 Samuel" Knox. 

9 Mary' M. Knox. 

10 Amos= F. Knox. 



2 Samuel* Knox, son of Benjamin^ Knox and Katie Wilson 
Knox, married a !Miss Burris. 

Issue. 
1 Margaret' Knox married Matthew Barber. 



53 The Kxox Family. 

Issue. 

1 La lira "^ Barber, married first Frank Thomp.-?oii. 

2 Jennie" Barber married Martin Pliifer.* 

Issue. 

1 Maggie^ Phifer married Eichard Guffcy. 

2 Barber" Phifer. 

3 Allen^ Phifer married Ix-na Knox, wlio al>o behmgs on 
another branch. 

4 Calvin^ Phifer. 

5 Hodge'^ Phifer. 

6 Lizzie^ Phifer. 

7 Ada^ Phifer. 

8 Ora^ Phifer. 

9 Flo}xF Phifer. 

2 Ben^ Allen Knox, son of Samuel Knox, whose wife was a 
Burris. Mr. Ben Allen Knox was a soldier in the C. S. A. He 
gives the following, relating to his service : "While in my boy- 
hood, in 1860, the cry for soldiers came, and I joined the army. 
Company 'B,' organized at Eowan Mills, now ClovL'Iaud, X. C, 
with James H. Wood as Captain. In a few months we were 
taken to Richmond and there armed. During our stay in Rich- 
mond, the first battle was fought. We were in the following bat- 
tles: Seven Pines, Cold Harbor, Seven Days' Fight around Rich- 
mond, Cedar Run (where Capt. Wood was killed), Gettysburg, 
Petersburg, Bloody Lane, and at Appomattox Courthouse where 
General R. E. Lee surrendered.'' 

He and family are Presbyterians. Reside at Cleveland, N. C. 
He married a Miss McKinnon, had two daughters: 

1 Gussie" Knox, married John Johnston, of Mocksville, X. C. 

Issue. 
1 Son, Knox'^ Johnston. 



a In Wheeler's History of North Carolina we find frequent mention of 
the name Martin Phifer. On paf,'e 2C8 we see he was a member of the 
House of Commons from Mecklenburg county in 1777. Also, one Caleb 
Phifer was member of the House of Commons from 1778 to 178G. 




BEN ALLEN KNOX, CLEVELAND, N- C. 



William Kxox and Descendants. 53 

2 Jimmie" Knox. 

3 James^ Knox married a Gillespie. 

Issue. 

1 Bettie" Knox married Thomas Cowan, Elmwood, N. C. 

Issue. 

1 Katie' Cowan. 

2 Allen' Cowan. 

3 James" Cowan. 

4 Annie' Cowan. 

5 Howard' Cowan. 

6 Elmer' Cowan. 

7 ]\Iaud' Cowan. 

8 Marv' Cowan. 

2 Pinkney'^ Knox married Kate Steel. 

Issue. 
Walter' Irvin Knox. 



4 Jane"^ Knox married a Young, had one daughter: Mollie* 
Young, married John H. Carson. 

Issue. 

1 Mamie' Carson. 

2 Samuel' Carson. 

3 Cora' Carson. 

4 Hattie' Carson. 

5 Daisy" Carson. 



3 John* Knox, son of Benjamin Knox, married a Miss Chunn. 
Lived in Iredell county, X. C. ; had six children : 

1 Eobert^ C. Knox, Oak Forest, N. C, married a Mills. 

Issue. 
1 Robert*^ M. Knox, in the mercantile business, in Statesyille, 
K. C, married ]\[iss Patterson. 

Issue. 

1 William Banner Knox. 

2 Rolx-rt Moffatt Knox. 

3 Kya White Knox. 



54 The Knox Family. 

2 Theophiliis*' L. Knox. 

3 Thomas® Kiiox, a merchant at Mt. Ulla, N. C, married, in 
June, 1902, Janie Moore. 

4 James® A. Knox. 

5 Leonidas® G. Knox. 

G A'ietoria® C. Knox married Theophilus Niblock, son of Alex- 
ander Xiblock. 

Issue. 

1 PearF Xiblock. 

2 Wade" Xiblock. 

3 Eobert^ Xiblock. 

4 Madge' Xiblock. 

5 James" Xiblock. 

6 George'^ Lee Xiblock. 

7 Octavia® M. Knox, married Frank Holton. 

Issue. 

1 Paul" Holton. 

2 Annie' Holton. 

3 Andry" M. Holton. 

4 Jaunita^ De Witt Holton. 

8 Mildred® F. Knox married Frank Steele. 

Issue. 

1 Florence^ Steele. 

2 Thomas" Steele. 

3 Katie^ Steele. 

4 Callie^ Steele. 

9 Dora® J. Knox. 



2 John^ W. Knox. 

3 MaryS E. Knox married M. Dwite Phifer, Statesville, X. C. 
Mr. Phifer was a son of Benjamin Phifer. 

Issue. 

1 Fred® Phifer. 

2 Tossie® Phifer. 

3 Lncretia® Phifer. 

4 Phipps® Phifer. 



William Knox and Descendants. 55 

4 Jane° S. Knox married H. M. Hugliey, son of Jacob 
Hughey. 

1 Son, James® Hughey. 

5 Susan"* F. Knox. 

6 Benjamin"* T. Knox. 



4 Ezekiel* Knox, son of Benjamin^ Knox and Katie Wilson, 
was born in North Carolina, August, 1803, emigrated to Perry 
county, Mo., about the year 1828. He married in September, 
1829, Mary C. Hughe}^ who was also a North Carolinian by 
birth, was born November 5, 1808, died August 2, 1885. He 
died July 23, 1860. Miss Hughey had gone to Missouri a few 
years previous to their ^marriage. He settled at Brazean, and 
raised a family of five boys and four girls. He made two trips 
back to North Carolina, the first time in a wagon, in 1833, the 
last time on horseback, in 1845. His parents lived and died on 
the place where they settled, one-half mile from Brazean Church, 
and were buried in the Brazean graveyard. Their children all 
settled in Missouri, and have lived in that State all their lives. 
Most of the descendants are farmers, one a lawyer. The great 
majority are Presbyterians — a few Methodists (South). All are 
Democrats. None of them have ever held any high office, though 
many are now holding office in both church and state, on school 
boards, etc. They are straight forward, industrious, honest 
farmers ; are of the very best in their vicinity. All have a good 
practical education, some of the young men have attended the 

State University. 

Issue. 

1 William^ P. Knox, born October 22, 1830, married Surilda 

McLain, in 1856. Beside at Caledonia, Mo. 

Issue. 
1 Maryo Jane Knox married Thos. Goody Koontz. 

Issue. 

1 Knox^ Goody Koontz. 

2 Lettie^ G. 

3 Mav^ G. 

4 Florence^ Goody Koontz. 



56 The Knox Family. 

2 Joseph^ Knox married Miss Hunt. 
One child, Josephine" Knox. 



2 Kobert^ G. Knox, born September 2, 1832, married Sarah 
Farrar, died 18G2.' 

One son, Charles° E. Knox. * 

3 Henrv^ B. Knox, born June 6, 1834, married Sophia Aber- 
nathy. Post-oflfice, Brazeau, ]\Io. 

Issue. 

1 Willie*' A. Knox married Joseph Fenwick. 

Issue. 

1 Franklin^ Fenwick. 

2 Lucile^ Fenwick. 

3 Clotilda^ Fenwick. 

2 C. B." Knox married Carrie Cashion. 

Issue. 

1 Floyd" Knox. 

2 Edwin' Knox. 

3 Mary" Knox. 

4 Catharine^ E. Knox, born July 21, 1836, married, Septem- 
l>er, 1855, R. A. Wilson. 

Issue. 

1 E.® P. Wilson married Lillie Seibert, December 14, 1882. 
One child, Kent' Wilson. Post-otfice address, Jackson, Mo. 



5 John^ W. Knox, lx)rn February 15, 1839, married Martha 
E. McNeely, Xovember, 1859. 

Issue. 
1 Chloe*' Knox married L. L. MclJ^eely, jSTovember 9, 1892. 

Issue. 

1 Ethel" Me^^eel^'. 

2 Grace' McNeely. 

3 Lela" McNeely. 

4 Lester^ McNeelv. 



William Knox and Descendaxts. 57 

2 Lillio'' Knox married Dnvid C. ITopo. April ."i, \S02. 

ISSUK. 

1 Xi'llie' Hope. 

3 Willi;:'' Knox married ^liss SliouUs. 

Issue. 
1 Magdaline" and Mildred' Knox, twins. 

We are indebted to ]\rr. Willis Knox for the record of his 
grandfather's branch. He seems to prize very much his copy of 
the Knox tree. His address is Shawneetown, ^lo. 

4 Walter" Knox married Miss Wilson. 

Issue. 

1 Carr4:)r Wilson. 

'2 Marv^ ]\[aud Wilson. 



G ]klary Jane' Knox, born December 11, 1841, married J. S. 
Lane, October T. 1858. 

Issue. 

1 Thos." E. Lane married Alice Milster, December 22, 1881. 

Issue. 

1 Birdie' Lane. 

2 licla" Lane. 

3 Guy' Lane. 

4 Hazel' Lane. 

2 Edward" Lan<? married Fannie Milster, April 10, 1890. 

Issue. 

1 Alvine" Lane. 

2 Chester" Lane. 

3 Eddie" Lane. 

4 John^ Tiane. 



58 The Knox Family, 

3 Joseph" Lane married Hattie Liickey, December 4, 1890. 

Issue. 

1 Eoberta^ Lane. 

2 Percy^ Lane. 

3 Virgie^ Lane. Brazean, Mo. 

4 Barbara® Lane. 

5 Benjamin" Lane married Miss Abernathey. 

Issue. 

1 William^ Lane. 

2 Howard^ Lane. 

6 IdelP Lane married a Luckey. 

Issue. 

1 Mamie^ Luckey. 

2 Harold^ Luckey. 

7 James^ M. Knox, born February 15, 1849. Residence, 
Longtown, Mo. He married lirst time Willie Nance, in 1866; 
married second Eliza Welker, in 1890. 

Issue. 

1 Edward" Knox. 

2 Samuel" Knox. 

3 Nora" Knox married a Moore. 

Issue. 
1 Patrick^ Moore. 
2. Ina" Moore. 

3 . 

4 . 

4 Jennie" Knox. 

5 Nellie" Knox. 

6 Wilfred" Knox. 

7 Birdie" Knox. 

8 Bertie" Knox. 



8 Julia^ Knox, born 1853, married Eichard B. Price, October 
14, 1886. Post-office, Golden City, Mo. 

9 Surilda= Knox, born March 11, 1856, died 1872. 



William Knox and Descendants. 59 

5 Mary* Knox, daughter of Benjamin K , married Levi 

Niblock, Rowan county, N. C. 

Issue. 
1 George^ Xiblock married Laura Cowan. Live at Cool 
Springs, X. C. 

Issue. 

1 John^ Xiblock married Sallie Foster. 

Issue. 

1 Foster^ Xiblock. 

2 Lucy^ Xiblock. 

3 Mabel" Xiblock. 

4 Laura^ Cowan Xiblock. 

2 Cowan^ X^iblock married Dora Renshaw. 

Issue. 
1 Malcolm^ Xiblock. 

3 Mary® Xiblock married Clifford Crawford. 

Issue. 
1 Fred^ Crawford. 

4 Elizabeth* Xiblock. 

5 Ida® Xiblock. 

6 Gracy® Xiblock. 



2 Alexander^ Xiblock married a Miss Cowan, died of disease, 
June, 1863, in Fifty-seventh Xorth Carolina Regiment, C. S. A. 

Issue. 
1 Frank® Xiblock married Fannie Renshaw. 

Issue. 
1 William^ Xewton Xiblock. 
8 Eugene^ Xiblock. 

3 Ruth^ Xiblock. 

4 Xaomi^ X^iblock. 

5 Cliffy Xiblock. 

6 Mary^ Xiblock. 

7 Linda^ Xiblock. 



60 The Knox Family. 

2 Theopliilus*' Xi block married Victoria Knox. Had six chil- 
dren. For names, see their mother's branch, several pages back. 

3 Terrissa" Xiblock married Addison Henley, Iredell countv. 
X. C. 

Issue. 

1 Kate*' Henley married a Holman, Mocksville, N. C. 

2 IMatilda" Henley married Kimball. 



4 Thomas^ jSTiblock was a soldier in the C. S. A., in Company 
"C," Fifty-seventh Eegiment c. ()ctol>er 6, 1863. He married 
Samantha Eenshaw. 

Issue. 

1 Kate« Niblock. 

2 Maggie*' Xiblock married Locke Steele. 

3 Bert*' Niblock. 

4 Sallie« Xiblock. 

5 Chalmers*' Xiblock. 

6 Lee*' Xiblock. 



6 Benjamin* Knox, son of Benjamin^ Knox, Sr., married 
Jane Luckey. 

Issue. 
1 ]\Iary' Knox married X. F. Steele. 

Issue. 

1 M." K. Steele married Ella Turner. 

2 Minna" Steele. 

3 Julia*' Steele married Hicks. 

Issue. 

1 Claude' Hicks. 

2 Effie' Hicks. 

3 Dora' Hicks. 

4 Xola' Hicks. 

5 Allen' Hicks. 



2 Catharine Knox married Thomas M. Gillespie. 

3 John Knox married a ]\riss Gillespie. 



William Knox and Descendants. 61 

Issue. 
1 Joseph G. Kiiox married a Miss Cook. 

4 Tillic Knox. 

5 Lavinia Knox married iirst Marlin, second a Martin. 
G William Knox married Lizzie Gillespie. 

Issue. 

1 Jinimie Knox. 

2 Mary Knox. 

3 Jay Knox. 

4 Gns Knox. 

7 Ann Knox married William Knox, her cousin; had six chil- 
dren. See her nncle William's hranch. 



T Frances* Knox, daughter of Benjamin K., Sr., married 
Matthew Steele. 

Issue. 
1 ;Matthew^ Steele, Jr., married a Miss Cowan. 

Issue. 

1 Yarner^ Steele married Bulah Fraley. 

Issue. 
1 Maude* Steele. 
.2 May" Steele. 

3 Leon" Steele. 

4 Willie" Steele. 

2 William^ Steele married a Miss Hughey. 

Issue. 
1 Thomas^ Steele married Irene Kincaid, both died. 

Issue. 



1. 
2. 



2 Frank« Steele. 

3 Hughev« Steele. 



62 The Knox Family. 

4 Locke*' Steele married Mrs. Irene K. Steele, his brother 
Thomas' widow. After her death he married Maggie Xiblock. 

5 Eddie« Steele. 

6 Lottie'^ Steele married Rhodes Guffev, Salisbury, X. C. 



3 John"' Steele married first a Liiekey, second an Irvin. 

Issue. 

1 Luckev*' Steele, died when a voung man. 

2 Fannie** Steele married White Fraley. He died in 1901. 

Issue. 

1 William' L. Fraley married Mattie Patton. 

2 Bulah" White Fraley married Varner Steele. Four children, 
as already stated. 

3 Jane^ C. Fraley. 

4 Claude^ B. Fralev. 

5 John" Steele Fraley married Desda Gillean. 

6 Maggie" May Fraley. 

7 Katie^ Fraley. 

8 Fannie^ W. Fraley. 

9 Xealy^ R. Fraley. 

10 Annie^ Fraley. 

3 Matthew^ Steele, died in early manhood; never married. 

4 Jane® Ann Steele married Robert Foard. 

Issue. 

1 Callie" Foard. 

2 Maggie" Foard. 

3 Laura^ Foard. 

4 Robert" Foard. 

5 May*" Steele married Thomas Kineaid, Statesville, X. C. 

6 Kate" Steele married Pink Knox ; one child, Walter Irvin 
Knox. 

7 Maggie" Steele. 

8 Lela" Steele married Lee Kineaid. One child. 

9 Joseph® Steele. 

10 J. Ramsay" Steele, died. 



William Kxox axd Descexdaxts. G3 

Most of these Steele families have lived in the bounds of old 
Third Creek Presbyterian Church, are members of, and some of 
them officers in that church. 



SECTION III. 

8 Robert* Knox, son of Benjamin Knox, Sr., married Catha- 
rine Clark. 

Issue. 

1 Jinnie^ Knox married Cap Seine. Live near Mocksville, 
K C. 

2 John^ S. Knox married Mar}' Graham, Cleveland, N". C. He 
served in the Confederate Army. Enlisted June 1, 1863, in 
Company "B," Second j^orth Carolina Cavalry, when eighteen 
years old. 

Issue. 

1 Daisy® Knox. 

2 Robert^ Knox. 

3 Katie® Knox. 

3 Margaret^ Knox married first Robert S. Cowan, of Rowan 
county, who was killed below Richmond, June, 1862. He was 
in the Thirty-fourth Regiment, Company "D," was second ser- 
geant, pr. to second lieutenant. By him she had two children. 

1 J. Leonidas® Cowan married Mary Lizzie Mills. One child, 
Anna' Robinson Cowan. Reside in Statesville, X. C, 

2 Zulia® Cowan married Robert C. Knox, who also belongs to 
another branch of the family. 

Issue. 

1 Margaret' Linda Knox. 

2 N'annie^ Irene Knox. 

3 Ruth' Cowan Knox. , 

Margaret Knox married second time Xathan Xeely. 

Issue. 
1 Cullie® Xeelv married John Houston. 



64 The Knox Family. 

Issue. 

1 James^ Houston. 

2 Flake^ Houston. 

3 John^ Bell Houston. 

4 S.^ A. Houston. Eeside near Mt. Ilia. Rowan Co., ?T. C. 

3 Kate" Xeely married William Lawrence, Charlotte, X. C. 

Issue. 
1 Bessie^ Lawrence. 
3 Harry^ Neely Lawrence. 
3 Willie^ Kate Lawrence. 

3 Fannie*' Neely married Walter Gilbert. 

Issue. 

First, John^ ISTeely Gilbert; second, Margaret^ Gilbert. States- 
ville, X. C. 

4 Eloise" iSTeely married Hugh Cowles, Statesvillo, N. C. 

5 Lloyd" Xeely. 

4 Bert^ Knox married Euphie Poston. Three children : 
1 Lena" Knox married Allen Phifer, Cleveland, N. C. 

Issue. 
1 Allen' Knox Phifer. 

8 Katie" Knox married Arthur Craven. 

Issue. 
1 Floyd' Pharr Craven. 

3 Robert" Knox. 



5 Tillle^ Knox married Thomas Patterson, Troutman's, N. C. 
One daughter, Katie" Patterson, married Espy Brawley. 

6 James^ W. Knox married Wilie Krider, daughter of Rev. 
B. Scott Krider, who at the time of his death was pastor of 
Thyatira Church, Rowan county, N. C. 

Issue. 

1 Mamie" Knox. 

2 Howard" Knox. James Knox resides on the old Knox plac^, 
part of the 600 acre tract bought by James Knox, emigrant. 



William Knox and Descendants. 66 

9 Margaret* Knox, daughter of Benjamin Knox, married 
John Knox, eldest son of Geo. Knox on the John Knox, Jr., 
branch. No children. 

10 Matilda* Knox, daughter of Benjamin Knox, married 
James Kerr. 

Issue. 
1 Mary^ Jane Kerr married William Luckey, Cleveland, N. C. 

Issue. 

1 Lizzie® Luckey married William Allison. One child, Kerr^ 
Allison. 

2 Mary* Luckey. 

3 Sallie* Luckey. 

4 William* Luckey. 

5 James* Luckey. 



11 Jane* Knox married John Kerr. In Third Creek eomnm- 
nity. 

Issue. 
1 Margaret^ Kerr married Scott Wood. 

Issue. 

1 Walter* Wood, and one daughter, dead. 

2 Matilda* Kerr m'arried Plyler. 

Issue. 

1 Hallie Plyler. 

2 Grace Plyler. 

3 Allen Plyler. 

Lutishia Kerr. 



12 Wilson* Knox, son of Benjamin Knox, went to Missouri 
or Alabama. Had two children, 1 William'^ Knox, 2 Fannie' 
Knox. We know nothing further of this branch. 



GG The Knox Family. 



SECTION IV. 

4 James^ Knox, son of William^ Knox and wife Allen, mar- 
ried twice. First wife was Ellen Graham, by whom he had two 
children, William and Rachel. 

1 William* Knox married a Miss Foster. Had two sons : 
1 John^ L. Knox, of Cool Springs married Jane Forsythe. 
He died in 1901. 

Issue. 

1 Katie" Knox married Logan Stimson, a druggist in States- 
ville, X. d. 

Issue. 

1 Meta^ Stimson married A. S. Webb. 

Issue. 
1 Hall>ert« Webb. 

2 Maurice" Stimson. 

3 Halbert^ Stimson. 

4 Rebecca' Stimson. 



2 Debora" Knox. 

3 Allen'' Knox, killed on railroad in 1900. 

4 ISTola" Knox married Charles E. Turner, who died in 1900. 

Issue. 

1 Allen^ Knox Turner. 

2 Geneva^ Turner. 

5 Janie" E. Knox. 

6 Eva'' Knox died January, 1901. 



2 James"' Knox married a Miss Rufty. 

Issue. 
1 Bettie" Knox married Jacob Graham. 

Issue. 

1 James^ Graham. 

2 Ollie^ Graham. 



William Kxox and Descendants, 67 

2 Fannie® Knox married Ho}x? Elliott. 
One child, Mary Elliott; 2 



2 Rachel* Knox married Benjamin Poston. A brother to Mrs. 
X. F. Hall's mother. 

Issue. 
1 Margaret Poston married Samuel McCorkle, who was a 
grand or great-grandson of Rev. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, of 
Thyatira Church, who was one among the pioneer preachers in 
Western Xorth Carolina. 

Issue. 

1 William'^ McCorkle married Lizzie Clotfelter. He served 
two years in the civil war; lives near Mill Bridge. 

Issue. 

1 Henry" McCorkle married a Miss Shinn. 

Issue. 

1 Florence^ McCorkle. 

2 Clifford' McCorkle. 

3 Alfred^ McCorkle. 

4 Lee' McCorkle. 

2 Ella" McCorkle married Caleb Freeze. 

Issue, 

1 Ethel" Freeze. 

2 Reese" Freeze. 

3 Hubbard' Freeze. 

4 Martha' Freeze. 

3 SamueP McCorkle. 

4 Jav"^ McCorkle. 



2 Thomas'" McCorkle married Alice Hopkins. To Florida. 

Issue. 

1 Maggie ^McCorkle. 

2 Ida McCorkle. 



68 The Knox Family. 

3 Arthur McCorkle. 

4 Jay McCorkle. 

5 May McCorkle. 

6 Cora McCorkle. 

3 Benjamin^ McCorkle married Addie Sills. To Florida, 

Issue. 

1 Thomas^ McCorkle. 

2 Rome® McCorkle. 

3 James® McCorkle. 

4 Holt® McCorkle. 

5 Maggie® McCorkle. 

4 Jennie' McCorkle married Hunnycut, Elmwood, N. C. 

Issue. 

1 Arthur® Hunnycut. 

2 Ovella® Hunnycut. 

3 Iva® Hunnycut. 

4 Oren® Hunnycut. 

5 Ealph® Hunnycut. 

6 Elmer® Hunnycut. 

2 Richard' Poston married first Harrison; second Miss Ball. 

Issue. 

1 William® Poston. 

2 Emeline® Poston. 

3 Benjamin® Poston. 

4 Minnie® Poston: 

5 Walter® Poston. 

6 Rockwell® Poston. 



James^ Knox married second time Elizabeth Foster. His de- 
scendants are as follows: 

1 Margaret* Knox married John Thompson, Rowan Co., N. C. 

Issue" 
1 James' Thompson married a Miss Nancy Hellard. 



William Kxox and Descendants. G9 

Issue. 

1 Locke*' Thompi^on married Jinnie Purvine, Wood Leaf, 
K C. 

1 Maggie'^ Thompson married Ross Lyerly. 

2 Frank^ Tliompson married Bessie Brown. 

3 Walter^ Thompson. 

4 Jesse^ Thompson. 

5 Eulalia'^ Thompson. 

6 Irene^ Thompson. 

2 Jinnie*' Thompson married Mills, Statesville, N. C. 

Issue. 

1 James^ Mills. 

2 Nannie" Mills. 

3 Annie' Belle Mills. 

4 Eosa' Mills. 

5 Ernest" Mills. 

6 John' Mack Mills. 

3 Frank*' Thompson married Laura Barber. Xo children. 



2 Sarah^ Thompson married Jesse Powlas. Both dead. 

3 William^ Thompson married Harriet Lyerly. 

Issue, 

1 Sallie" Thompson married Pinkney Thomason. 

Issue, 

1 Pliny' Thomason. 

2 George' Thomason, 

3 Jesse' Thomason. 

4 Katie' Thomason. 

5 Isabell' Thomason. 

2 Mollie" Thompson married James Knox, Graham. 

Issue. 

1 William' Graham married Mary Wilhelm. 

2 Bottie Graham married Motts Thomason. 



70 The Knox Family. 

4 Mary' Thompson married Freeze. Ono son, Benja- 
min*' Freeze married Miss Stilus. 

5 Turner" Thompson married Pinkston. 

Issue. 

1 Maggie'^ Thompson married Flem Caubl^. 

Issue. 
1 William^ Cauble. 
3 Walter^ Cauble. 
3 Nannie^ Cauble. 
i . 

2 Alice*"' Thompson married James Graham, of Cleveland, 
North Carolina. 

Issue. 

1 Mary' Emma Graham. 

2 James^ Turner Graham. 

3 Thomas*' Thompson married Xolie Lyerly. 

Issue. 
1 

■i Frank« Thompson married Sallie Hall, Cleveland, X. C. 
One child, Lizzie^ Wells Thompson. 

5 Turner^ Thompson, Jr., married Edith Brannum, of Mis- 
souri. 

6 Jones® Thompson married Sallie Myers. 

7 Carrie® Thompson. 



6 John'^ Thompson. Killed in the civil war. 



2 Elizabeth* Knox married Thomas Lightle, Xo children. 
Dead. 

3 Ellen* Graham Knox married Portland Gay, Iredell county, 
Xorth Carolina. 

Issue. 

1 Bettie' Gay married Hiel Poston, Iredell county, X. C. 



William Knox and Descendants. T1 

Issue. 

1 Elmina** Poston married N. B. Mills, a merchant in States- 
ville, N. C. 

Issue. 

1 Katie^ Lee Mills. 

2 Allen^ Mills. 

3 Lonnie^ Mills. 

4 Elmina' Mills. 

2 Calvin" Poston married a Miss Ramsay. 

Issue. 

1 Jiilia^ Poston. 

2 MabeF Poston. 

3 Bettie'' Poston married a Dry. (Concord, N. C.) 

Issue. 

1 Floyd Dry. 

2 Lee Dry. 

3 Jessie Dry. 

4 Pen a Dry. 

5 . 

6 . 

4 Robert'^ Poston married Nannie Davidson. 

Issue. 
1 Louis' Poston. Address, Statesville, X. C. 

5 William'' Poston. 



2 Knox^ Gay married Miss Hare. 

Issue. 

1 Grace^ Gay. 

2 Lillie® Gav. 

3 Isabella^ Gay married James Dotson. 

Issue. 
1 Vance" Dotson married Luola Houpe, Statesville, N. C. 



(V 



2 The Knox Family. 

Issue. 

1 Eva" Dotson. 

2 HazeF Cox Dotson. 

3 . 

2 Thomas" Dotson. 

3 John® Dotson. 

4 Maggie*^ Dotson married Gaither, Harmony Hill, N. C. 



4 Amanda"^ Gay. 

4 Catharine* Chambers Knox married Franklin Gay, died in 
1900. 

Issue. 

1 Laura" Jane Gay married John B. Holman, a prominent, 
useful citizen of Iredell county, N. C. 

Issue. 

1 Floyd** Gay Holman married a Spainhour. 

2 Cornelia" J. Holman married Joseph Noell. 

Issue. 

1 Eobert^ :N'oell. 

2 Breta^ Gay Noell. 



5 James* Knox went West many years ago and died, leaving 
one son, William, who was killed in the C. S. A. If William 
married or left descendants we are not informed of it. 

6 David* F. Knox married Margaret Goodman, Iredell county, 
N. C. He died 1901. 

Issue. 
1 Mary^ Knox married Chap Turner, Iredell county, N. C. 

Issue. 

1 Dessie" Turner. 

2 John" G. Turner. 

3 David" Walter Turner. 



William Kxox axd Descexdants. 73 

2 Bettie-"' M. Knox married William W. Turner, who is Ko<i- 
ister of Deeds in Statesville, N. C. 

Issue. 

1 James*^ Leonidas Turner married May Shuford, Cooleemee, 
North Carolina. 

2 David" Elmer Turner married Minnie Lee McXeely, 

3 Margaret" Turner. 

4 Alfred" Marvin Turner. 

5 Fred" Henry Turner. 



CHAPTEH VI. 
Samuel Kxox and Descendants. 

SAMCEL- KXOX, Si{., son of John Knox, emigrant, and 
wife, Jean Knox, was born January 1, 1T4T. (This is the 
only one of th<? sons of Jolm Knox, cniigran't, whose date of birth 
we ean give. If is obtained from the record sent us by one of Ids 
grandsons, William W. Knox, of Meido, Ga.) 

In n74, Samuel Knox married Mary Luekie, who was born 
March 1, 175(5. He was a soldier in the devolution. Judge T. J. 
Davis, of Cane Spring, Ga., who married a granddaughter of 
Sanmel Knox, Sr., wrote me that he talked with him about the 
IJevoIutionary war, and his having taken part in it. He also saw 
him (lie. After the close of the war he built Knox's fort in the 
State of Georgia for protection against the Cherokee Indians. 
The fort still remains, and is known as Knox's Fort. We have 
not learned its exact locality. Mr. Knox was a farmer; was a 
member of the Presbyterian Church. From his mother's will we 
learn that he and bis brother Benjamin Knox were appointed 
executors of said will. 

He died in Jackson county, Ga., about 1835, aged eighty-eight 
years; was buried in the cemetery at a Presbyterian Church, 
Gluey, two miles fromliis residence. (Rev. John B. Wilson was 
the pastor of the Olney Church for many years.) 

J- R. W. Department of the Intehiou, 

31802 Inv. Bureau of Pensions, 

Rev. War. Washington, D. C, June 2, 1904. 

Madam : In reply to your request for a statement of the mili- 
tary history of Samuel Knox, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, 
you will find below the desired information as. contained in his 
application for pension on file in this Bureau. 

Date of enlistment or appointment not remembered; length 



Samuel Knox and Uesckndants. 75 

of service, tliree months; rank, private; captain, Thos. Cowan; 
colonel, Davy; State, Xorth Carolina. 

Date of enlistment or appoin.tment not remembered; len^fth 
of service, two weeks; rank, private; captain, Joseph Dixon; 
colonel, Ix)cks; State, Xorth Carolina. 

Date of enlistment or appoiiitmen^t not remembered; length 
of service, five months; rank, private; captain, Cowan ; colonel, 
not stated; State, North Carolina. 

Battles encraged in. Eamsours Mills; residence of soldier at 
enlistment, Rowan county, X. C. ; date of application for jwn- 
sion. October 3, 1832; residence at date of application, Jackson 
county, Ga. ; age at date of application, eighty-six years. Re- 
marks, his claim was allowed. 

A'ery respectfully, E. T. Ware^ Commissioner. 

Miss Hattie S. Goodman, Statesville, X. C. 

(See also official certificate from Department of the State 
Auditor, on page 35.) 

His wife survived him a few years. She was an amiable lady, 
and the wife of his youth. He had four sons and four or five 
daughters. 

1 James^ Knox, eldest son of Samuel- Knox, Sr., was born 
June 5, 1775. The records sent in do not exactly agree as to his 
wife's name. One has it that he married a Miss Cowan, while, 
according to later data it would seem that he married a Miss 
Lucl-y, and after his death his widow married a Mr. Cowan. 
(There were several children -by this marriage.) 

James^ Knox had one son and one daughter. 
II. 1 David* Luckie Knox. See Section II. 
2 Eliza* Knox, who died before reaching womanhood. 

2 Jane^ Knox, eldest daughter of Samuel Knox, Sr., was born 
May 22, 1777, married Ale.xander'Luckie. 

3 John'' Knox, son of Samuel Knox, Sr., lx)rn October 6, 
1779; died young. 

4 Anna^ Knox, daughter of Samuel Knox, Sr., born June 16, 
1782; married William Jarratt. 



76 The Knox Family. 

Issue. 

1 James* Jarratt, died 1860. 

2 Dr. William* Jarratt, Milledgville, Ga. 

5 Mary^ Knox, born January 25, 1785; died young. 

6 David^ Knox, born October 13, 1787; died without issue. 
III. 7 SamueP Knox, Jr., son of Samuel Knox, Sr., was born 

October 6, 1789; maxried Mary Montgomery. 

8 Cynthia^ Knox, youngest child of Samuel Knox, Sr., was 
born 1790; died 1865. She married John Borders. 

Issue. 

1 Mary* Borders, married Jarret Brooks. 

Issue. 

1 Sally^ Brooks. 

2 Thomas^ Brooks. 

3 Pat° Brooks. 

2 Virginia* Borders, married Ancil Cunningham. 

Issue, 

1 Mary' Cunningham, married Mr. Bush. 

2 Adaline^ Cunningham, married an Allen. 

3 John^ Cunningham. 

4 Victoria' Cunningham, married . 

5 Cynthia' Cunningham, married Shuford. 

6 Henry' Cunningham. 

7 Samuel' Knox Cunningham. 

8 Ancil' Cunningham. 



Adaline* Borders, married Thomas Bush. 

Issue. 

1 Augustus' Bush. 

2 Celestia' Bush. 

3 Alice' Bush. 

4 Mary' Bush. 

5 Thomas' Bush. 

6 Dora' Bush. 

7 James' Knox Bush. 




MRS. CYNTHIA KNOX BORDERS, 



Samuel Knox and Descendants. 77 

4 Serena* Ann Borders, born 1815; died 1887. She married 
Rev. S. G. Jenkins, a Baptist preacher. 

Issue. 
1 Cynthia^ Jenkins married George Whatley, a lawyer. Mr. 
Whatley was killed in battle, while leading his company in a 
charge. He was a brave, good man. 

Issue, 

1 George® Whatley married Bessie Farret. 

Issue. 

1 Eula^ Whatley. 

2 George" Whatley. 

3 Bates^ Whatley. 

2 Eiila® Whatley married David Griffin. 



2 Frances^ Jenkins married Dr. J. Robertson. 

Issue. 
1 Edwin* Robertson. 

3 John^ Luther Jenkins, married Emma Bush. 

Issue. 

1 Thomas'^ Jenkins, 

2 Hallie® Jenkinis. 

3 Clarence* Jenkins. 

4 Alma® Jenkins. 

4 Ellen^ Jenkins, married a Jenkins. 

5 James^ Knox Jenkins married Lizzie , 



Issue. 
1 Ralph* Knox Jenkins. 

6 Young^ Jenkins. 

7i Georgia' Jenkins married J. C. McMichael. 



78 The Kkox Family. 

5 Eliza* Borders married Flourney Ponders. 

Issue. 

1 Benjamin^ Knox Ponders. 

2 James^ Ponders. 

3 Annie'' Ponders married James Crook. One child, Flour- 
ney^ Crook. 

4 Susan^ Ponders. 

5 John^ Ponders. 

6 Ida° Ponders married Devotee Xoble. 

Issue. 

1 Ponder" Xoble. 

2 Frank« Xoble. 

3 Grady« Xoble. 

4 John*' Xoble. 



G Samuel* K. Borders married Sally 

Issue. 

1 Georgia^' Borders married Mr. Christian. 

Issue. 

1 George'' Christian. 

2 Lena" Christian. 

3 Aline" Christian. 

4 Howard" Christian. 

2 Mary^ Borders married a Waters. 

3 Annie' Borders. 

4 John' Borders. 

5 Hattie' Borders married Wilson. 
G Sallie' Borders married Cory. 

7 Lillie' Borders. 



7 Abner* Borders married Sarah 

Issue. 

1 John' Borders. 

2 James" K. Borders. 



Samuel Knox and Descendaxts. 

3 Samuel" Borders. 

4 William^ Borders. 

5 Hopton'"' Borders. 

C Adaline" Borders married Glover. 

Issue. 





1 Frank« Glover. 




2 William« Glover. 




3 Maud« Glover. 




4 Annie" Glover. 




5 Guy« Glover. 




6 Abner** Glover. 




Bob^ Ijee Borders. 


8 


Charles"' Borders. 


9 


Abner^ Borders. 


10 May° Borders. 



Evelyn* Borders married John Bush. 

Issue. 

1 Delia"' Bush married Dupree. 

2 Mary^ Bush. 

3 Tom^ Bush. 

4 Xannie^ Bush. 

5 Abner^ Bush. 



SECTION II. 

David* Luckie Knox, only son of James^ Knox, who was the 
eldest son of SamueP Knox, Sr., was born in Jackson county, 
Ga., March 25, 1801. In 1820 he married Elizabeth Montgom- 
ery, born 1800, sister to his uncle Samuel Knox's wife. They 
were daughters of Col. Hugh Montgomery. (The name Mont- 
gomery in Scptch is "Mount Gomer," Mountain Dwellers.) Col. 
Montgomery represented Jackson county in the State Senate 
many years. He was also Indian agent for the Cherokee pur- 
chase when Indians were taken West. It is said that Hugh 



80 The Knox Family, 

Montgomery and Governor McMinn were pioneers in s(^nding out 
Presbyterian missionaries into North Georgia., and hence the 
origin of Presbyterianism in the Cherokee country. Col. Mont- 
gomery is buried at Alpine, Ga. David Luckie Knox and family 
moved from Georgia to McMinn county, Tenn., in 1830, and set- 
tled on the Hiwassee River. Two years later moving into the 
Cherokee nation, on south side of the river, in what is now Brad- 
ley county, where he lived until his death, in 1854. 

He was a prosperous farmer, at his death owning one of the 
best farms on the river, also sixty-three slaves. He was politi- 
cally a Whig, and a man of very forcible character, upright in his 
dealings with his fellow-men. He was unusually kind to his 
slaves. A few years prior to his death, he began the erection of 
a .splendid brick residence on his farm, and completed it just 
before his death. His widow died in 1869. They raised a large 
family of children, fourteen in number, most of whom married 
and had families. Their names are as follows : 

1 Cynthia Ann Knox. 

2 James Montgomery Knox. 

3 Hugh C. Knox. 

4 Samuel Knox. 

5 Christopher Columbus Knox. 

6 Mary Jane Knox. 

7 William Knox. 

8 Joseph Scott Knox. 

9 Julia Knox. 

10 Margaret Knox. 

11 Tho. Jefferson Knox. 
12. Nancy Agnes Knox. 

13 Gallic E. Knox. 

14 Henry Harrison Knox. 

1 Cynthia^ Ann Knox married James Parks, of Polk county, 
Tenn. Had several children; all died young. 

2 James^ Montgomery Knox, of Cleveland, Tenn., was bom 
July 11, 1822, married in 1848, Nancy A. Camp, who was born 
in 1832. No children. He was for years in the mercantile busi- 




cHristopHef! columbus kNox, jacksboro, tex. 




CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS KNOX and SCfvIE GF HIS GRANDCHILDREN. 



Samuel Kxox and Descendants. 81 

iiess at Dahlonega, Ga.; later moved to Charleston, Tenn., where 
he was a successful merchant. Accumulating a sufficiency, he 
retired in 1869. He was for years previous to his death president 
of the Bank of Charleston, in Cleveland, Tenn. ; was a ruling 
elder in the Cumberland Pre.sb}i^rian Church, taking a great 
interest in all church affairs. Contributed liberally toward the 
erection of the Cumberland Presbyterian Churches at both Knox- 
ville and Chattanooga, Tenn. He educated several young men 
for the ministry ; was generous to the poor and needy, and loved 
by all who knew him. He died in 1892 at Cleveland, where he 
had resided some years. 

3 Hugh^ Crawford Knox never married ; lived most of his life 
in Charleston, Tenn.; came to his death by being kicked by a 
mule in 1882. 

4 SamueP Knox emigrated to near Decatur, Texas, where he 
died in 1887. He married Mary E. Grills. One child: 

Harriet^ Elizabeth Knox married Edward Maddox. 

Issue. 

1 John^ Alfred Maddox. 

2 James^ Samuel Maddox. 

3 David^ Lucky Maddox. 

4 Jodie^ Wood Maddox. 

Christopher'' Columbus Knox was one of fourteen children of 
David Lucky Knox, and his wife Elizabeth Montgomery, all of 
whom lived to the age of maturity. His parents emigrated from 
Georgia to Tennessee, and settled on the Hiwassee Eiver, in Polk 
or Bradley county, when the tide of emigration set in westward. 
They were large slave-owners, and reared their family on a river 
plantation, near Charleston. Here he spent his early life, grew 
up to manhood's estate, and was married on his birthday, at 
twenty-three years of age. 

Melita Jane Weir, his Wife, 

No account of his life, however brief, would be complete with- 
out mention of his wife, Melita Jane Weir, to whom he was mar- 
ried on February 21, 1850. The union was a very happy one; it 



83 The Knox Family. 

was indissoluble indeed, in heart as well as in hand, which 
throughout their future was both beautiful and inspiring. She 
was a daughter of Samuel Weir and his wife, Sarah Jane Brad- 
ford ;'was reared in the same neighborhood, with like ideals and 
ambitions, and inspired by the same character of hope and aspi- 
rations. 

Their Early Life. 

They established for themselves a home, nearby the old home- 
steads, and started the pathway of life together, with all the 
buoyancy of youth; happiness attended them on their journey 
and success crowned their efforts. Until the blight of internecine 
strife and civil war invaded the Southland, they lived amid 
pleasant surroundings, and enjoyed all the comforts and luxu- 
ries that hearts oould desire, but the ravages of the period of 
1861-1865, fell heavily upon them, and they emerged from its 
distresses with financial embarrassment hm^ering over their fu- 
ture. Plantations were in ruin all about them, the slaves were 
freed, fortunes had been swept away, and they themselves escaped 
not the common lot. 

Shortly after the close of this trying period, realizing that a 
new start in life must be made, the "old home" was disposed of, 
and they moved on to a farm adjoining the town of Charleston, 
where its schools and educational opportunities could be taken 
advantage of, for a large and growing family of children. Here 
they resided until the year 1870, when a desire to better condi- 
tions impelled them to seek a new home in the far West. Nine 
children had been bom to them, seven of whom accompanied 
them on this journey; the other two lay buried in the church- 
yard at Charleston, their Last resting place appropriately marked. 

Their Journey to Texas. 

Seeing their older children arriving at the age of maturity, 
and desiring that they might avail themselves of the opportuni- 
ties offered in a new country, he disposed of all their possessions, 
except j)ersonal goods, and in November, 1870, started from the 
home of their nativity to the frontier of Northwest Texas, intent 
upon bettering the financial condition of himself and family 



Samuel Knox and Descendants. 83 

amid the vicissitudes and hardships of an unsettled countxy, and 
to them an unknown hind. 

This was at a period when few railways traversed the country 
and spanned the rivers, hence travelling accommodations were 
very meager, and they were six weeks on the journey. Taking 
passage on a boat at ^lemphis they went down the Mississippi 
Eiver to Xew Orleans, thence across the Gulf of Mexico to Gal- 
veston, and thence by rail to Bremond, the terminus of the Hous- 
ton and Texas Central Railroad. Here wagons and teams were 
purchased and the remainder of the journey, two hundred miles 
was completed overland to Birdville, a small settlement seven 
miles from Fort Worth, in Tarrant county ; after resting here a 
few weeks, stopping with relatives, they continued their journey 
thirty miles further on to Veal Station, in Parker county, where 
a farm had been rented for the next year. 

Notwithstanding winter was at hand, and had spread her 
freezing blasts all around them, a desire to get into their new 
home, im|x^lled them to leave the sheltering roof of friends and 
relatives on the morning of December 23, 1870, two days before 
Christmas, to take up their abode amid the bardsliips and trials 
of life on the frontier. 

Early Days in Texas. 

The ''blue northers" of Texas, in those early days carried con- 
sternation to the heart and fear to the mind of the most intrepid; 
man and beast alike sought protection from its icy blast. Com- 
ing suddenly and almost without warning, apparently from a 
clear sky, suffering awaited the belated traveller and death, 
unless refuge could be found from its freezing shafts. Shortly 
after starting out they made their first acquaintance with this 
terror of western climate ; a bitter cold wind blew up from the 
K'orth, and while crossing the Grand Prairie, it came upon them 
in all its fury. Protecting the family as best they could, in the 
wagons, they trudged on until late in the afternoon, when they 
came upon an old abandoned cabin, sheltered by bluffs, where 
they stopped for the night, making themselves comfortable by 
big \os fires, and the next afternoon, Christmas Eve, arrived at 



81 The Knox Family. 

their destination, in a blinding snow storm, "strangers in a 
sitrange land." After living here two years they moved to the 
white settlements in Tarrant connty, and after two years more 
moved back again to Veal Station, where they remained until 
the fall of the year 1877. 

While living in the white settlements another child was born 
to them, but died in infancy, and was buried in the graveyard at- 
Birdville, in Tarrant county ; while here the only living daugh- 
ter was married in 1874 to C. C. Culton, of Springtown, Texas. 
The next year the family moved back to Veal Station, in Parker 
county. 

Life on the Frontier. 

In 1877, the oldest son acquired a tract of land, located eight 
miles north of Jacksboro, in Jack county; thither in November 
they removed, and built a home, opening up a farm, where they 
could permanently abide; here the younger children of the 
family grew up, and from thence upon arriving at maturity, went 
forth to earn their livelihood. Flocks of goats and sheep and 
herds of cattle were gradually acquired by differ.ent members 
of the family, until finally the "old home" developed into a 
large stock ranch, owned and stocked by the eldest son, Jamea 
W. Knox. 

Death of his Wife. 

His wife, Melita Jane Knox, died at the home of their daugh- 
ter, Mrs. Culton, in Springtown, Texas, on October 27, 1880, 
after a short illness; all the family were at her bedside, except 
two sons, James and Henry, who were unavoidably detained at 
Jacksboro. For nearly nineteen years he lived on, bearing his 
grief arid carrying his sorrow, in separation from her, who had 
been to him, a help-meet indeed, devoting his thoughts and life 
to his childTen, intent only upon their happiness and welfare; 
and although the place at his side was vacant' and the void could 
not be filled, yet he found solace in the reflections of a well spent 
life, and joy in the prosperity and success of hisjoved ones. 

In his Old Age. 
The three oldest sons were located in Jacksboro, Texas, and he 
spent much of his time in their homes, making periodical visits 



Samuel Kxox axd Descendants. 85 

to his other children, at least once each year; he preferred, how- 
ever, to make his home on the ranche, close to nature and nature's 
heart, and where his wife had spent the last years of her life. 
The picture shows him on his favorite saddled horse, "Brownie," 
in which manner he employed much of his time and found recre- 
ation. 

Throughout his life he was robust and healthy, and after 
moving to Texas, had scarcely known a day's sickness, until a 
few months before his death, but the grim reaper could not be 
resisted, the strong constitution and even stronger heart could 
not resist the ravages of years; one vital spot after another de- 
veloped its enfeebled condition, until senility, complicated by 
disease, broke the brittle thread of life, and he passed away at 
the home of his son, David L. Knox, in Jacksboro, on April 12, 
1899. 

His Last Days. 

A few days before his death, realizing that the end could not 
be far off, all the members of his family were summoned to his 
bedside, and for more than a week all his children and grand- 
children were continuously with him, to minister to his wants, 
and conifort him in his sickness. His mind was strong and vig- 
orous, and even to the very last he was able to get up and go 
about the house, from room to room, with the assistance of his 
children, who attended at his side and humored his every wish. 

Two days before death came upon him, loving hands carried 
him out on the gallery, in his big arm chair, where he spent 
much of his time and secured "a. Kodak picture," with bis nine 
living grandchildren clustered fondly about him. This was the 
work of his daughter-in-laM', Mrs. James W. Knox, of Jacks- 
boro, and is highly prized by the family, being the last picture of 
him, and perpetuating the last memories. 

He lived more than "threescore years and ten," and departed 
"for that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller 
ever returns," at the ripe old age of seventy-two years, one month 
and twenty-one days; his last days were days of happiness, and 
his last hours were hours of peace. 



86 The Knox Family. 

A Tribute to his Character. 

The following is contained in a letter to members of the fam- 
ily, written on the occasion of his death, by a brother-in-law, 
John B. Weir, of Washington, D. C, who probably knew him as 
no other person did, other than his immediate family, viz. : 

"That affection which nature gives in a greater or le^s degree 
to every one, had been intensified in his case, by years of associa- 
tion which were noted for kindness and gentleness, not only to 
yourselves, but to every one who knew him. To me he was a 
brother, not only in law, but in acts and affection. Although I 
was at his house so much in my boyhood days, and must have 
given him cause to be annoyed with me, still I cannot recall one 
instance when he ever spoke one harsh or unkind word to me. 
Do you not think that remarkable? 

"And how kind and gentle he was to your dear n:other! I 
was at their house very much and saw them under varied circum- 
stances, and I tell you their relations as husband and wife were 
beautiful, ideal, simply perfect." 

Both he and his wife made professions of religion in early 
life, and joined the Cumberland Presbjierian Church, of which 
they remained always consistent, consecrated members, and their 
lives were said to have been models of Christian patience, for- 
bearance, charity and fortitude. 

Their Last Eesting Place. 

Together they started upon life's journey; they shared its 
joys and sorrows ; together they braved the hardships of a period 
that tried men's souls in the crucible of distress, and achieved 
victory over its reverses; together'they labored and toiled through 
life, and together they sleep the sleep of the just in death. Their 
bodies lie in Oakwood Cemetery at Jacksboro, Texas, their last 
resting place appropriately signified by a monument of Vermont 
gray granite, erected at the head of their graves, in commemora- 
tion of their lives, and in loving remembrance of their fidelity, 
to mark the spot should future occasion ever require it, and 
bearing this inscription : 



Samuel Kxox and Descendants. 87 

Sacred to the Memory of 
Our Father and Mother, 

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS KNOX, 
Born Feb. 21, 1827. Died Apr. 11, 1899. 

MELITA JANE WEIR, HIS WIFE, 

Born Nov. 7, 1830. Died Oct. 27, 1880. 

KNOX. 

Children of the Family. 

James W. Knox, th^ oldest child, was boru October 4, 1853; 
on the removal of the family to Texas in 1870, he located in 
Jacksboro, engaging in mercantile pursuits; afterwards he em- 
barked in business for himself, the venture proving remarkably 
successful, financially. He was married February 27, 1879, to 
Miss Emma Lane Connor, of Bethlehem, Pa. "For many years 
he has been president of the First National Bank of Jacksboro, 
and is largely interested in ranch property and live stock; he 
has always been actively identified with the progressive move- 
ments, and taken a lively interest in public enterprises for the 
welfare of the town and county where he lives. 

David L. Knox was born December 9, 1854; he also located 
in Jacksboro, where he was married July 4, 1882, to Miss Marie 
Louise Murphy. After engaging in mercantile pursuits for 
many years he became the leading spirit in the organization of 
the First National Bank of Jacksboro, in 1888, and accepted the 
position of cashier, which he has continuously held. The man- 
agement of its fiscal affairs deyolved upon him, and he has been 
largely instrumental in its wonderful success. 

Sarah Elizabeth Knox was born March 29, 1851 ; died Sept. 
21, 1862, at the age of eleven years, and lies buried in the church 
cemetery at Charleston, Tenn. 

Martha Ann Knox was bor.n April 21, 1857; married to Clin- 
ton Campbell Culton, of Springtown, Texas, on October 18, 
1874. He was a native of Bradley county, Tenn., and has been 
continuously engaged in mercantile business ; for the past twelve 



88 The Knox Family. 

years tliev have resided at Chico, Wise c?ounty, Texas. They have 
three children living, viz. : Ita, who is engaged as teacher of 
oratory in Indianola College, at Wynnewood, Ind. Ter. ; Don, 
the next in age, who graduated with honors, in 1904, being vale- 
dictorian of his class; Knox, the youngest, who bears his 
mother's maiden name, is a school boy. 

Samuel W. Knox was born November 9, 1859; when a child 
seven years of age he unfortunately met with an accident in a 
sugar cane press that caused the loss of his left arm above the 
elbow. He was married January 11, 1883, to Miss Lauretta Ad- 
die Banner, at Jacksboro, Texas ; they lost one child, a little boy 
named Banner, at seven years of age, buried by the fcide of his 
grandparents, and have three children living, viz., John, Vinnie 
and Amy. 

His determination and perseverance have enabled him to over- 
come the obstacles of his affliction, and succeed in all his efforts ; 
he has always engaged in the live stock industry and owns large 
ranch and stock interests near Jacksboro, Texas. 

John Henry Knox was born March 16, 1862; he chose a cleri- 
cal pursuit in life, and for many years was emplo}'ed in the 
Merchants and Planters National Bank of Sherman, Texas, as 
head bookkeeper, but afterwards engaged in stock raising, near 
Abilene, Texas, where he was married, April — , 1899, to Miss 
Hannah More Joy. In 1893 he sold out his ranch and organized 
the Lindsay National Bank of Lindsay, Ind. Ter., taking the 
position of cashier of that institution ; they have two children. 

Willie Lee Knox was born April 18, 1865 ; died January 21, 
1868, and buried in the church yard at Charleston, Tenn. 

Christopher L. Knox was born December 9, 1867 ; he located 
at Corsicana, Texas, January 1, 1887, and studied law; has been 
actively identified in public life in the city and county of his 
adoption, where he is engaged in the practice of his chosen pro- 
fession; he was married October 29, 1890, to Miss Mattie Lou 
Johnson, of Corsicana, Texas, and they have three children, viz., 
Melita. born December 16, 1891; Louise, born July 25, 1893, 
and Christopher Johnson, born December 30, 1895. 

George Bradford Knox was born November 25, 1869; just as 



Samuel Knox and Descexdaxts. 89 

he was arriving at the years of maturity, he went to Poughkeep- 
sie, N. Y., and entered upon a business course in Eastman Busi- 
ness College; here he was stricken with la grippe, developing 
into pneumonia, from which he died February 2, 1891. 

Cora Knox was born Sopt^mlx^r 22, 1877; died in infancy, 
October 11, 1872, and buried in the cemetery at Birdville. Tar- 
rant county, Texas. 



6 Mary^ Jane Knox, sixth child of David Luckie Knox, mar- 
ried Eleazer Freeman. They located in Charleston, Tenn., just 
after the civil war, where Mr. Freeman opened a tannery. He 
died in 1883; his widow died in 1894. 

Issue. 

1 Henry" R. Freeman, near Albuquerque, Xew Mexico. 

2 James" Knox Freeman married Minnie Shaw, of Shaw, Ga., 
in 1897; lives in Xew Mexico. One child, Mary" Jessie Free- 
man. 



7 William^ Knox, son of David* Luckey Knox, was born Sept. 
10, 1828, in Simnett county, Ga. He married, March 14, 1861, 
Miss Tennesse Smith, who was born October 14, 1840. He en- 
gaged in farming until 1870, when he formed a partnership with 
R. L. Graves, under the firm name of Graves. Knox & Co., where 
they sold goods until 1879. When he sofd out his interest and 
opened up a store in Charleston, Bradley county, where he con- 
tinued in business until his death, July 2, 1888. He was an up- 
right Christian gentleman, of sturdy character. His wife, who 
is still living in Charleston, Tenn., was a daughter of j\Iajor 
William Smith, who was first a captain and later a sargeant 
major in the Confederate army, and a prominent man in Mc- 
Minn county, Tenn. William Knox had nine children, namely: 

1 Elizabeth" M. 

2 John" C. 

3 Ernest" Lee. 



90 The Knox Family. 

4 William" Luckey. 

5 Walter" S. 

6 Henry" T. 

7 James" M. 

8 Pearl" Ophelia, 
g David" Knox. 

1 Elizabeth" Magena Knox, born December 24. 1861, married 
January 20, 1885, George W. Nixon, then of Rockwood, Tenn., 
living at present in Chattanooga ; has for years been engaged in 
iron ore mining; now operating mines at Inman, Tenn., and 
Kaolie, Ala. He is the inventor and manufacturer of the "Nixon 
Ratchet mining drill." Their children are : 

1 Knox^ Nixon. 

2 Shellie^ Nixon.. 

3 Ernest^ William Nixon. 

4 Hugh'' Nixon. 

5 Comer^ Nixon. 

6 Lewis^ Gaines Nixon. 

2 John" Christopher Knox, born September 20, 1863, married 
February 5, 1890, Annie Laura Johnston, of La Fayette, Ga. 

Issue. 

1 John^ C. Knox, Jr., 

2 William Clarentine' Knox. 

John C. Knox resides in La Fayette, Ga., where he was in busi- 
ness for several years. Is at present representing capitalists in 
buying up and opening coal lands in North Georgia. He was 
for some years in the ore business at Attalla, Ala., as general 
manager of the Attalla Mining Company. 

3 Ernest" Lee Knox, born November 19, 1865, married July 
23, 1890, Josephene Isabella Wheeler. He was from 1891 to 
1894 engaged in. iron ore mining at Crudup, Ala. He is now a 
merchant at Charleston, Tenn. (In company with W. S. Knox, 
as firm of Knox Bros. & Co.) 



Samuel Knox and Dlscendaxts. 91 

They have five living children : 

1 Florence^' Lee Knox. 

2 William" Washington Knox. 

3 Luekie^ Knox. 

4 Ernest^ I-/ee Knox, Jr. 

5 Ruth' Knox. 

4 William^ Luekey Knox was born December 1, 18G8. He 
graduated in 1893 from the medical department of the Uni- 
versity of Nashville. Began the practice of medicine at Crudup, 
Ala. In 1894 moved back to Charleston, where he died in 1897. 
Though his life was sliort, it was a noble one. He was an in- 
valid for some years before his death, but continued to practice, 
and carried his religion into the homes of his patients. He never 
married. 

5 Walter^ Smith Knox, born December 25, 1870, married 
October 12, 1897, Annie Carmack, of Charleston. He was for 
several years in the iron ore business at Crudup, Ala., as super- 
intendent of the mines. He is now one of the mercantile firm, 
Knox Bros. & Co., Charleston, Tenn; is a ruling elder in the 
Cumberland Presbyterian Church. They have three children : 

1 James'' Knox. 

2 Amilda' Knox. 

3 Ira'' Landith Knox. 

6 Henry^ Thomas Knox, born July 25, 1873, in I'ennessee. 
He lives at present in Jacksboro, Texais, where he is manager of 
the Jacksboro Mercantile Company. He is much interested in 
the history of the Knox family, and has a copy of the tree. Sends 
us a group photo of quite a number of the descendants of David 
Luekey Knox. 

7 James® Montgomery Knox, bom February, 1877; died in 
infancy. 

8 PearP Ophelia Knox, born August 3, 1878, married, 1897, 
Samuel Johnston, of Cleveland, Tenn. He was for several years 
in business in Charleston; also in Idaho, railroading.' He is 
now living at Tucker's Springs, Tenn., farming. 



92 The Kkox Family. 

Issue. 

1 May^ Elizabeth Johnston. 

2 James^ Knox Johnston. 

9 David^ Knox, born December 31, 1880. He lives in Charles- 
ton, Tenn., with his mother. 

8 Joseph^ Soott Knox, son of David Lucky Knox, was born 
November 10, 1829, in Bradley (or Polk) county, Tcnn., mar- 
ried October 9, 1860, Mary Elizabeth Oarlock, of McMinn 
county. He moved with his family from Tennessee to Texas in 
1876; died March 23, 1886. His widow lives at Colton, Oal., 
with her son, Clarence M. They had eight children, as follows: 

1 James'' David Knox, born September 18, 1861; resides at 
Whittier, Oal. He was for some time a railroad man, acting as 
station and commercial agent for the Southern Pacific Railroad 
Company. Later he was a fruit buyer in Whittier.' He married 
Nancy E. Graves. 

Issue. 

1 Minnie^ Lee Knox married Matthew Moss, Rivera, Cal., a 
walnut grower. 

Issue. 
1 Voliney* Moss. 

2 James" Oscar Knox. 

3 Jodie^ Carpenter Knox. 

4 Elizabeth' Graves Knox. 

5 Charles^ Eston Knox. 

6 Lonia^ Etliel Knox. 



2 Charles*' Henry Knox, born September 29, 1S63; is a 
physician at Greenwood, Texas; married Bessie Fenwick in 
1892. 

Issue. 

1 Walter' Scott Knox. 

2 James^ Henry Knox, born January 23, 19(11, first month of 
the first year of the twentieth century. 

3 Elizabeth" Hoyl Knox, bom August 26, 1866 ; died Febru- 
ary 20, 1880. 



Samuel Kxox and Descendants. 93 

4 Sarali^ Ariniiita Knox, born December 13, 18G0 ; married 
John Peyton Isbell January 20, 1893. Orange and Walnut 
grower, Whittier, Cal. 

Issue. 

1 Fletcher^ Knox Isbell, born 1893 ; died in infancy. 

2 Thelma^ Isbell, born July 13, 1894. 

3 Catharine" Carlock Isbelf, born June 27, 1897. 



5 Katie® Lee Knox, born March 13, 1872; married Walter 
Harry Colquitt, February 3, 1892; reside at Colton, Cal. 

6 Clarence^ Montgomery Knox, born June 15, 1875; railroad 
agent at Colton, Cal. 

7 Blanche^ Carlock Knox, born July 17, 1880; married Wil- 
liam Holmes Mann, July 3, 1898; railroad agent. 

Issue. 
1 William^ Holmes Mann, Jr., born May 10, 1899. 



8 Julia® Carpenter Knox, born December 27, 1885 ; died 1886. 

9 Margaret^ Knox, daYighter of David Luckey Knox, was born 
April 15, 1830, married Henry Rice, 1857. She lived afiter her 
husband's death with her sister, Mrs. A. C. Robeson, of Athens, 
Tenn., where she died November 23, 1876. No children. 

10 Thomas^ Jefferson Knox, son of David Luckey Knox, was 
born January 10, 1833, married Martha A. Morrison August 29, 
1859, of near Charleston, Tenn. He has been cashier of the 
Bank of Charleston, in Cleveland, Tenn., for a number of years. 

Issue. 
1 Hettie® E. Knox, born Sept. 3, 1860; married her cousin, 
James McKamy, of Cleveland, Tenn. (son of Julia E. Knox Mc- 
Kamy. "^ 

Issue. 

1 Cora^ McKamy; died young. 

2 James' Vance McKamy; died young. 

3 Annie' Lee McKamy. 

4 James' McKamy. 



94 The Knox Family. 

2 Eobert*' Lee Knox, born January 7, 1862 ; married January 
15, 1888, Belle Featherstone, of Nashville, Tenn. He was for 
some years engaged in mercantile business in Denison, Texas. 
Now lives in Cleveland, Tenn. 

3 Ebon" Thomas Knox, born March 6, 1865; married Flor- 
ence W. Wheeler, of Cbatata, Tenn. He has been for a time a 
merchant in Charleston; is now in charge of the store of the 
Cumberland Coal & Coke Co., at Ozone, Tenn. 

IssuK 

1 Thomas'^ Wheeler Knox. 

2 Hugh'^ Morrison Knox. 

3 Mary' Belle Knox. 

4 Willie' Knox (daughter.) 

4 Oscar® A. Knox married Harry Hardwick, of Cleveland. 
He is secretary for Cleveland Stove and Foundry Company. Two 
children. 

Issue. 

1 Adella' Knox. 

2 Irene' Knox. 

5 Mary" I>eonia Knox, born August 3, 1874, married Frank 
J. Harle, October 6, 1897. Two children. 

Issue. 

1 Mary' Louise Harle. 

2 Frank' Knox Harle. 

(Frank J. Harle is assistant cashier of the Cleveland National 
Bank.) 

6 Hugh" Montgomery Knox, born January 15, 1877; unmar- 
ried. 



11 Julie tt^ E. Knox, the eleventh child of David Lui.key Knox 
and wife, Elizabeth Montgomery Knox, was born May 23, 1834, 
at big Savannah, Polk county, Tenn. Her father moved to 
Bradley county when she was quite young. She received her 
education principally in Benton, Polk county, and Madisonville, 



Samuel Knox and Descendants. 95 

Monroe county. November 2, 1854, she married William H. 
McKamy, who was then a merchant at Benton. When the civil 
war came on he made up a company known as "The Forty-third 
Tennessee Volunteers." At the seige of Vicksburg he was badly 
wounded — shot in the shoulder after taking a ditch which an- 
other man had been ordered to take, and several other attempts 
that failed to take it; he was successful, though lost the use of 
one arm for life. He was reported as dead for more than three 
months, then brought home to die, but got well and went back to 
the war, and remained until its close. He was promoted to 
major on account of his bravery. They moved to Cleveland, 
Tenn., October, 1884, where he served as clerk of court for a 
number of years. There were twelve children born to them, 
seven of whom were still living when this sketch was written. 

Issue. 

1 David" Knox McKamy, of Dalton, Ga., married Laura S. 
Wailes, of Selma, Ala. He is vice-president and treasurer of the 
Cherokee Manufacturing Company of Dalton. 

Issue. 

1 Edwin'^ McKamv. 

2 David^ Knox McKamy. 

2 James" McKamy, of Cleveland, a merchant. He married 
Hettie E. Knox, daughter of T. J. Knox. Children's names 
already given on the mother's branch. 

3 William" H. McKamy, Jr., is a lawyer; also clerk and mas- 
ter of the Chancery Court at Cleveland, Tenn., the office his 
father held for eighteen years; at his death his son and name- 
sake was appointed to succeed him. 

4 Annie" E. McKamy, still at home. 

5 Thomas" J. McKamy, M. D. Resides at Cleveland, Tenn. 
At present he is county physician of Bradley county. 

6 Joseph" A. McKamy, now of Fort Worth, Texas. 

7 Minnie" J. McKamy, at home. 

Capt. McKamy, as he -was known, died at his home in Cleve- 
land, Xovem]>er, 1894. His widow and the unmarried children 
— with the exception of Joseph A., of Fort Worth — still reside 



96 The Knox Family, 

at the old home in Cleveland, Bradley county, Tenn. Though 
Mrs. McKamy is almost sixty-seven years old she is remarkably 
strong and active. She is one of the three still living of a family 
of fourteen children, and is the only daughter now living. (This 
February 13, 1901.) 



12 Nancy^ Agnes Knox, daughter of David Luekey Knox, 
never married. Lived with her brother, H. H. Knox, until her 
death. 

13 Caroline^ Elizabeth Knox, daughter of David Luekey Knox, 
was born December 28, 1838; married Alexander C. Robeson, of 
Athens, Tenn., November 9, 1858. She died June, 1864. 

Issue. 
1 William® Henry Eobegon, born September, 1860; married 
India Furguson, October, 1887. Resides in Washingt'on City, 
D. C. Mr. Robeson is a prominent attorney, acting for one of 
the Indian tribes. 

Issue. 

1 Edith^ Maxey Robeson, born Aug-ust 19, 1888. 

2 Gertrude^ Robeson, born December 29, 1889. 

3 A. C.' Robeson, Jr., born December 19, 1891. 

4 India' Robeson, born July 10, 1894. 

5 Louise' Robeson, born April 5, 1896; died 1897, in Vir- 
ginia. 



2 Katharine^ Elizabeth Robeson, born February 23, 1862, at 
Athens, Tenn.; married October 29, 1885, Edgar V. Carter, a 
very prominent lawyer in Atlanta, G-a., of the firm Rosser & 
Carter. 

Issue. 

1 Robeson' Carter born September 21, 1886. 

2 Edgar' V. Carter, Jr., born September 28, 1889. 

3 Frank' Carter, born July 22, 1892. 

3 A. C." Robeson, born January 13, 1864; died August, 1864. 



Samuel Knox and Descendants. 97 

14 Henry^ Harrison Knox, of Charleston, Tenn., youngest son 
of David Liickey Knox, was born July 16, 1840; married Jennie 
Vaughn. *' 

Issue. 

1 Emma'* Sue Knox married George M. Smartt, of Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn. Five children. 

Issue. 

1 Henry^ Knox Smartt. 

2 Cora^ Vaughn Smartt. 

3 Harold^ Smartt. 

4 George'^ Madison Smartt. 

5 Emma'^ Sue Smartt. 

6 Eicbard^ Polk Smartt. 

2 Cora® Knox, died. 

3 Foley® Vaughn Knox, in New York City. 



Group Picture. 

Xames of the parties in the foregoing group, taken at a family 
reunion of the "David Lucky Knox" branch, at Tucker's Springs, 
July, 1900 viz., beginning at left, top row standing: 

1 Oscar A. Knox, Cleveland, Tenn. 

2 Henry T. Knox, Graham, Texas. 

3 Annie McKamy, Cleveland, Tenn. 

4 Mrs. F. Vaughn Knox, New York. 

5 Miss Nina Camp, Cleveland, Tenn. 

Next row standing, begin at left: 

1 G. M. Smartt, Chattanooga, TenU'. 

2 Hugh M. Knox, Cleveland, Tenn. 

3 Dr. Thomas J. McKamy, Cleveland, Tenn. 

4 S. M. Johnston, Tucker Springs, Tenn. 

5 Ernest L. Knox, Charleston, Tenn. 

6 James M. McKamv, Cleveland, Tenn. 

7 George W. Nixon, Chattanooga, Tenn. 



98 The Knox Family. 

8 Walter S. Knox, Charleston, Tenn., with son, Jaines L. 

Knox, in arms. 

9 Foley Vaughn Knox, New York. 

10 Ebon T. Knox, Charleston, Tenn. 

11 Frank J. Harle, Cleveland, Tenn. 

12 William H. McKamy, Cleveland, Tenn. 

13 Henry H. Knox, Charleston, with grandchild in arms. 

14 Knox Nixon, Chattanooga, Tenn. 

15 David K. McKamy, Dalton, Ga. 

16 Mrs. David K. McKamy, Dalton, Ga. 

17 Thomas J. Knox, Cleveland, Tenn. 

Next row sitting, begin at l^ft : 

1 Mrs. G. M. Smart, nee Emma Sue Knox. 

2 Miss Minnie McKamy. 

4 Joseph Smith. 

5 Mrs. George W. Nixon, nee Elizabeth Knox. 

6 Mrs. James McKamy, nee Hettie E. Knox. 

7 Mrs. Samuel M. Johnston and child, nee Ophelia Knox. 

8 Mrs. Walter S. Knox and child. 

9 Ebon T. Knox, with two little daughter^ to the right. 

10 Mrs. Frank J. Harle and daughter, nee Mary Knox. 

11 Mr&r Henry H. Knox. 

12 Mrs. Nancy A. Knox, widow of James M. Knox. 

13 Mrs. Tennessee Knox, widow of William Knox. 

14 Mrs. Julia McKamy, widow of W. H. McKamy. 

15 Mrs. Oscar A. Knox. 

16 Mrs. Thomas J. Knox. 

The row of children, are not mentioneid by name. List of 
names furnished by Walter S. Knox, Charleston, Tenn. 

SECTION III. 

SamueP Knox, Jr., son of SamueP Knox, Sr. (son of John 
Knox, emigrant), was born October 6, 1789, ,in Oglethorpe 
county, Ga. He married Mary Montgomery, October 5, 1809. 
She was born January 31, 1791, was a sister to Elizabeth Mont- 



Samuel Knox and Descendants. 99 

gomery, David* Luckie Knox's wife. Tliey were daughters of 
Col. Hugh Montgomer}', a prominent man in Jackson county, 
Georgia. 

Captain Samuel Knox, Jr., was in tlie war of 1812. Served 
under General Floyd in all his campaigns against the Creek In- 
dians up to the last battle at Horse Shoe Bend. He commanded 
a comi^any. He was a man of fine ability and great dignity. 
Mrs. J. S. Davis, his granddaughter-in-law, says she never met a 
more perfect gentleman; also that the Knox family stood very 
high in their community. He made a competent fortune in 
agriculture, much of which was swept away by Sherman's army, 
for his home was in the storm track of the war, and his place was 
one of mark. He and his wife raised a fine family of children. 
His sons and grandsons illustrated their devotion to home and 
country with their blood or presence on ever}' field of battle from 
Gettysburg, Pa., to Shiloh and Vicksburg, Miss. He was a Pres- 
byterian. He had eight sons and six daughters. 

1 Dr. James* Croll Knox, eldest son of SamueP Knox, Jr., 
was born March 28, 1812, in Jackson county, near Athens, Ga. 
He selected medicine as the profession of his choice, and became 
a physician of distinguished ability. He was especially eminent 
in the department of surgery. He seemed devoted to his profes- 
sion. It was peculiarly gratifying to him to be the instrument of 
administering relief to suffering humanity. 

As a citizen he was ever ready to bear his part; took a deep 
and earnest interest in every good work. Temperance, morality, 
law and order, and the prosjjerity of the country, always found 
in him a constant and efficient supporter. Frequently making 
public addresses for the cause of temperance and morality, giving 
all the weight of his good judgment and strong influence in their 
favor. 

As a Christian he was eminently qualified for usefulness. 
Soon after settling in Talladega-, in 1835, he was elected a ruling 
elder in the Presbyterian Church, under the ministry of Dr. 
Cater, which office he held about forty years. He was clerk of 
session for many years. For a long time he also discharged the 
duties of the office of deacon. 



100 The Kxox Family. 

He made an excellent instructor in the Sabbath-school. His 
pupils esteemed it a privilege to attend his class. He was super- 
intendent of the Suniday-<school for a number of years — not 
known just how long. This important department of the 
church's work became an arm of power and usefulness while 
under his judicious and faithful management. He delighted in 
the services of the sanctuary, Sunday-school and prayer-meeting. 
The words of 137th Psalm expressed his thoughts and feelings 
on this subject. 

" I love thy kingdom, Lord, 
The house of thine abode; 
The church our blessed Redeemer saved 
With his own precious blood." 

He was eminently a man of prayer. Peculiarly gifted in 
public prayer, that every one, it is said, enjoyed hearing him 
pray. But around the domestic hearth and in his closet his 
prayerfulnes'S was unusually great. He has been known to spend 
all night in prayer. It was his custom to devote one hour every 
morning to prayer. We learn that always before he was to per- 
form any difficult surgical operation he would spend much of the 
previous night in earnest wrestling prayer to his Heavenly Fa- 
ther. So when the hour came for the trying work he was calm 
and composed, and went through his arduous duties with success. 
He took this way of preparing himself for his work. 

(This reminds us of the habits of a great general who, it was 
said, always on the night before he was to fight a battle, or make 
any important move, Avould spend much time in prayer to God.) 

He took great delight in home in the mid'st of his family. 
Worldly pleasures had little attraction for him. He ever had the 
most anxious solicitude in regard to each member of his family, 
especially their spiritual welfare. If this was secured, all else,, 
he felt sure, would be well. 

His last days were such as might be expected from such a life. 
No fears of death whatever — all bright, peaceful and serene. He 
died March 18, 1877. 

(The greater part of the above sketch is taken from the me- 
morial address delivered on the occasion of his funeral, in the 



Samuel Knox and Descendants. 101 

Presbyterian Church, Talladega, Ala,, March 19, 1877. A copy 
of this memorial address was sent me by his son, Hon. John B. 
Knox, Anniston, Ala.) 

Dr. James C. Knox was married three times. First wife was 
Mary Jane Bowie, second child of Chancellor Alexander Bowie 
and his wife, Susan Barnett Bowie. She was born at Abbeville, 
S. C, October 27, 1816. Removed with her parents to Talladega, 
Ala., and on July 18, 1837, married Dr. James Croll Knox, of 
that town, and became the mother of ten children. It is said that 
she was a most accomplished woman. She died June 8, 1857. 

Dr. Knox's second wife was Mary Elizabeth Barnett, whom he 
married April 14, 1858. After her death in 1870, the widow 
Eiee, nee Miss Margaret E. Johnston, becanie his third wife, in 
October, 1872. 

Miss Johnston was born March 29, 1836, in Mecklenburg 
county, X. C. Her parents were descendants of noted families — 
the Alexanders and Morrisons of North Carolina. While yet in 
her teens she married Rev. Mr. Rice, then pastor of the Presby- 
terian Church in Palestine, Texag. In a few years she was left 
a widow, during which time she taught with great success in 
Marion Seminary for a number of years. She died May 15, 
1894. 

Issue of Dr. James^ C. Knox and his first wife, Mary Jane 
Bowie Knox: 

1 Alexander^ Bowie Knox, born June 15, 1838. He served as 
major of the Forty-second Alabama Regiment, Confederate 
Army ; was mortally wounded at the battle of Corinth, and died 
January 29, 1863, unmarried. 

2 SamueP Luckie Knox, born March 21, 1840. He was brig- 
adier-general, Confederate Army; killed in the battle of Frank- 
lin, Tenn., December 21, 1864 (unmarried). 

3 Laura^ Cynthia Knox, born April 9, 1842; married James 
Gillespie; reside in Nashville, Tenn. 

Issue. 

1 Samuel" Gillespie. 

2 Mamie* Gillespie. 

3 Julius" Gillespie. 



102 The Knox Family. 

4 Alice" Gillespie. 

5 James" Gillespie. 

6 Kosa" Gillespie. 

7 Hendrick" Gillespie. 

8 Fannie" Gillespie. 

4 Mary' Jane Knox, born July 29, 1843; married John Mc- 
Daniel, of Livingston, Ala. 

Issue. 

1 Belle" McDaniel. 

2 Lila" McDaniel. 

3 Henry" McDaniel. 

4 John" McDaniel. 

5 Louis" McDaniel. 

5 Rosa'^ Knox, born July 13, 1845 ; married Lewis Bi-own, of 
Sumpterville, Sumpter county, Ala. No children. 

6 James^ Croll Knox, Jr., bom September 11, 1847, Aberdeen, 
Miss. 

7 Susan' Jack Knox, born June 11, 1849; died May 20, 1855. 

8 William' Andrew Knox, born March 29, 1851; married 
January 16, 1879, his cousin, Mary Belle Wardsworth, whose 
mother, Rosa Bowie, was a daughter of General John Bowie. 
Mr. Knox died October 22, 1892, leaving two children. (After 
his death his widow, on March 20, 1894, married James F. 
Rogers, of Covington, Ga. No children by him.) 

Issue. 

1 Rosa" Belle Knox, born December 16, 1879. 
"2 James" Croll Knox, born August 3, 1883. 

9 Jabez' Madison Knox, b6rn May 29, 1853; died August, 
1888, single. 

10 John' Barnett Knox, son of Dr. James C. Knox and Mary 
L. Bowie, was born February 16, 1857. 

He resides in Anniston, Ala. He is one of the -leaders of the 
Alabama bar, senior member of the law firm of Knox, Acker & 
Blackmon. He has a large and lucrative practice, representing 




Hon. JOHN B. KNox, aNNistoN, ALa. 



Samuel K\ox and Descendants, 103 

many of the largest corporations doing business in Alabama. 
His first cousin, Sydney J. Bowie, is his law partner, and now 
represents the Fourth Congressional District of Alabama in 
Congress. 

Mr. Knox has been for two terms chairman of the Demo- 
cratic State Executive Committee of Alabama, twice delegate 
from the State at large to national Democratic conventions. In 
1901 he was elected as one of the fbur delegates from the State 
at large to the Constitutional Convention of Alabama, leading 
by over one hundred votes in the nominating convention, the 
delegate at large receiving the next highest vote. He was chosen 
president of tlie convention, and filled the position with distin- 
guished ability, winning for himself great honor by the part he 
bore in dealing with the negro problem and other grave and 
difficult questions confronting the .convention. He is understood 
throughout Alabama to be destined to represent the State in the 
United States Senate at the first vacancy. 

He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and takes an 
active interest in all church matters. In 1884 he married Miss 
Carrie E. McClure, of Lewisburg, Tenn., a woman of culture and 
great personal magnetism. 

They had two daughters : 

1 Carrie McClure Knox. 

3 Alary Lyle Knox, died September 16, 1898. 

Issue of Dr. James C. Knox and second wife, Mary Elizabeth 
Barnett Knox (first cousin to his first wife) : 

1 Anna'" Margaret Knox, born March 4, 1859; married Dr. 
Patillo Simpson, of Laurens, S. C. 

Issue. 

1 Mary^ Simpson. 

2 Lucia® Simpson. 

3 Knox* Simpson. 

4 Annie® Simpson. 

2 Lillie" Belle Knox, born August 21, 1860; married A. W. 
Cockrell, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla. 



104 The Knox Family. 

Issue. 

1 Susan" Cockrell. 

2 Jane® Knox Cockrell, 

3 Xathan« Cockrell. 

4 Lucia" Cockrell. 

5 Augustus" William Cockrell. 

3 Lucia® Barnet't Knox, born November 7, 18G1; died May 
12, 1889] She was first wife of A. W. Cockrell, of Jacksonville, 
Fla. No children. 

4 Zannie^ Bowie Knox, born May 27, 1864; married Dr. Wil- 
liam F. Thetford, Talladega, Ala.' 

5 Susan^ Knox, died at Talladega, unmarried. 

SECTION lY. 

2 Cynthia L. Knox, eldest daughter of SamueP Knox, Jr., 
was born May 24, 1813. She married Thomas J. Davis, of Cane 
Spring, Ga., December 23, 1829. 

Of her it has been said that she was a sweet, home woman; was 
the mother of, thirteen children, devoted her time and entire 
strength tolier family. She died of consumption November 19, 
1861, aged forty-eight years. Her husband, Judge T. J. Davis, 
was a man of worth and integrity, of whom, as one has said, vol- 
umes could be said and pages written. His father, Joseph Davis, 
emigrated to Georgia about the time Samuel Knox, Sr., did, and 
settled in Jackson county. They were strong friends through 
life. Davis was a much younger man than Knox. Judge T. J. 
Davis was born in Jackson county, Ga., August 10, 3810. In 
1846 moved to Floyd county, near Cave Spring. He represented 
his county in many ways of honor, was a member of one or two 
constitutional conventions ; was the leading spirit of his church, 
president of the board of trustees of the principal school in the 
place, was a man universally beloved. He was a successful busi- 
ness man, and though the war left him an old man, stripped of 
almost everything^ he was never heard to fret or murmur, but 
with indomitable will and energy, he went to work, educated the 
two younger girls. At his death, though eighty-nine years old, 



Samuel Knox and Descendants. 105 

he was making a very good support in the insurance busineP". 
He was a man of wonderful memory and exceedingly well in- 
formed. Judge Davis rendered valuable assistance in getting 
up a record of the Samuel Knox branch. After the death of his 
first wife, Miss Knox, in November, 1861, he married the widow 
of Dr. Charles Gayton, of Dublin, Ga., who died March 19, 1886. 
He died in 1900, aged eighty-nine, leaving only two living chil- 
dren — Eliza and Ida. 

Issue. 

1 AVilliam'^ M. Davis, born 1830 ; died 1860, unmarried. 

2 Mary^ Hasseltine Davis, born 1832; died 1852. 

3 James^ Scott Davis, born December 2, 1834. He was a 
professor in the G-eorgia school for deaf for twenty-five years; 
was an earnest Christian and a high-toned gentleman, com- 
manded the resi)ect of all. He married Mattie Simmons, Cave 
Spring, Ga.; died August, 1890. 

Issue. 

1 James" Scott Davis, Jr., married Minnie Manger, August, 
1896. 

Issue. 

1 Mattie' Davis. 

2 . 

2 Stella*' Davis married F. J. Willingham. 

Issue. 

1 Alva^ Willingham. 

2 Gladys^ \yillingham; died three years old. 

3 Ella" Davis. 

4 Hasseltine" Davis. 



4 Sarah^ Louise Davis, born 1837; died 1863. 

5 SamueP J. Davis, born 1839 ; died 1844. 

6 John^ H. Davis, born 1840; died in 1862 from a wound 
received in the Confederate arniv. 



106 The Knox Family. 

7 Thomas^ Jefferson Davis, Jr., born 18-il ; died 1842. 

8 Eliza^ Ann Davis, born 1843; married E. R. Simmons. 

Issue. 

1 Sidney® Simmons, a farmer. 

2 Gertrude*^ Simmons married Thomas J. Winnins^ham. 

Issue. 

1 Mary^ Winningham. 

2 Thomas^' Winningham. 

3 Rufus^ Winningham. 

3 Gussie" Simmons. 



9 Hiigh^ M. Davis, born 1845; married Bettie Mann. 

Issue. 

1 Eula* Davis married James Cnrtright. 

2 Kate^ Davis married Col. Hutcherson. 

Issue. 
1 Edith^ Hutcherson. 

3 Liickey® Davis married Peter Harris. 

4 Thomas" Davis. 



10 Josephene^ E. Davis, born 1849; died 1851. 

11 Martha' E. Davis, born 1851; died 1852. 

12 Georgia' Davis, born 1853; married J. H. Hoskinson. 

Issue. 

1 Maude® Hoskinson. 

2 Georgia® Hoskinson. 

3 Henley® Hoskinson. 



13 Ida' Davis, born 1856; married Dr. I. B. Rollator, Ok- 
lahoma. 



Samuel Kxox and Descendants. 107 

3 lluy'li* MoiitgonuTv Knox, son of SanuieP Knox. Jr., was 
born J)ecenibcr 12, 1814; married Harriet Lamar, dauglitor of 
General Jolin Lamar. (Tlie Lamars are said to be a brainy }xx)- 
pie.) 

Issue. 

1 Son, BasiP Lamar Knox, of Raccoon Mills, Ga. He was a 
soldier of the Confederacy; enlisted in May, 1861, and sur- 
rendered at Appomattox Conrthonse in 1865. He belonged to 
the Xinth Georgia Regiment, Hood's Division of Lee'? Army of 
Va. He married Fannie Smith; has seven children. 

Issue. 

1 Hugh" Lee Knox married W. C. Wood. 

Issue. 
1 Wyatt^ Clinton AVood. 

2 Eniily*^ Hill Knox married John W. Wyatt. Five children. 

Issue. 

1 Xena" Bratton Wyatt. 

2 Knox' Montgomery Wyatt. 

3 John" Hill Wyatt. 

4 Martha^ Frances Wyatt. 

5 Ann" Elizabeth Wyatt. 

3 Henry*^ Lamar Knox. 

4 Harriet** Elizabeth Knox married Henry A. Shacklett. 
•J Frances*' Freeman Knox. 

6 John** Gordon Knox. 
T Katie** Belle Kno.x. 



4 John* Barclay Knox, born February 5, 1816; married Mary 
Agnes Boyle in 1840. 

Issue. 

1 Eobert' Knox, killed in the civil war. 

2 SamueP Knox married ]\Iary Pnllen. He was elected sheriff 
oi. his county two or three terms. 



108 The Knox Family. 

Issue, 

1 Lola'' Knox. 

2 Sallie« Knox. 

3 Robert® Knox. 

4 EtheP Knox. 

3 Margaret^ Ann Knox. 

4 William^ Clinton Knox married Anna Tapp. They have 
several children; names not given. 

5 Thomas^ E. Knox married Bessie Smith. 



5 William* W. Knox, Menlo, Ga., son of Samuel Knox, Jr., 
was born July 7, 1819. He married Margaret Rosa Bowie, De- 
cember 23, 1843, who was a daughter of Chanioellor Alexander 
Bowie, was born in South Carolina, September 10, 1825. She 
was a sister to the first wife of Dr. James C. Knox, of Talladega. 
William W. Knox was a lawyer. He sent us a nicely arranged 
record of a good part of the Samuel Knox branch, prepared by 
his granddaughter, Margaret Rosa Borden, which we prized very 
much. 

Issue of William W. Knox and wife are : 

1 Susan^ Bowie Knox, born October 11, 1884; died in infancy. 

2 Louisa^ Augusta Knox, bom July 7, 1846; married B. F. 
Borden in 1867 ; died 1873. 

Issue. 

1 Richard" Borden, born March 22, 1869. 

2 Margaret*' Rosa Borden, born September 5, 1872; married 
April 27, 1898, George P. Ide, of Vermont, who at present is 
cashier of the Tredger National Bank of Jacksonville, Ala. 

3 Annie*' Lewis Borden, born August 25, 1873 ; married Octo- 
ber 20, 1897, Shepherd A. McGee. 

Issue. 
1 Borden^ McGee. 



3 S. B.' Knox, born Oct. 1848; died March 31, 1886. 



•Samuel Kxox axd Descexdaxts. 109 

4 Marv^ Jane Knox, born November 13, 1850; married R. A. 
MeWhorter, October 17, 1877; died June 16, 1886. 

Issue. 

1 Luther*' Lamar MeWhorter, born Aug. 20, 1878; died 1880. 

2 Essie« Myrtle MeWhorter, born May 8, 1880. 

3 Howard® F. MeWhorter, born September 4, 1881. 



5 James^ A. Knox, born September 20, 1853; died 1872, 

6 Adelle^ E. Knox, born September 15, 1855; died in infancy. 

7 William^ W. Knox, Jr., born September 15, 1856. In Xew 
Mexico. 

8 Thomas J. Knox, born June 19, 1859. In New Mexico. 

9 Lamar Knox, born August 2, 1861; died without issue. 

10 Barnett Knox, born August 25, 1863 ; died. 

11 Hattie J. Knox, born October 29, 1865; died 1882. 



6 Margaret* Ann Knox, born September 30, 1820; married 
Samuel MeWhorter. 

Issue. 

1 SamueP M. MeWhorter, Summerville, Ga. 

2 L.^:\rcWhorter. 

3 T. J.^ MeWhorter. 



7 Christopher* C. Knox, born April 19, 1822 ; married first a 
Miss Clark, of Mississippi. They had three sons and two daugh- 
ters: 

1 SamueP M. Knox married Mollie De Jernett. 

2 Mollie'^ Knox married William Beavers. Two children. 

Issue. 

1 Sallie^ Beavers. 

2 Knox® Beavers. 

3 Thomas' J. Knox. 

4 Franklin' Knox, in Texas. 

5 Hettie' Knox married Mr. Hibbot. 



110 The Kxox Family. 

C* C. Knox next married Julia A. Strickland in 1865. 

Issue. 

1 Louisa^ Augusta Knox, born March 27, 1867; married 
0. D. Wyatt, Menlo, Ga. 

2 Paulin'e^ Knox, born 1871. 

3 Xona'^ Knox. 

4 Charles^ Knox. 



8 D.* L. Knox, born August 25, 1824; died in infancy. 

9 Samuel* M. Knox, born May 31, 1826; died without issue. 

10 Mary* J. Knox, born November 7, 1827; married John 
Mackey. She died January 7, 1846,* leaving an infant child, 
Mary^ Mackey, who afterw^ards married Eaddy Wyatt, and lives 
near Menlo. Ga. Her children are : 



1 


SamueP E. Wyatt. 


2 


Hettie« Wyatt. 


3 


Belle« Wyatt. 


4 


Emma« Wyatt. 


5 


Robert^ Wyatt. 


6 


J.« Eugene Wyatt. 


7 


Eosa« Wyatt. 


8 


Henry® Wyatt. 


9 


Thomas*' Wyatt. 


10 Willie^ Wyatt. 



11 Elizabeth* E. Kniox, born Augusft 6, 1829; died February 
16, 1882, unmarried. 

12 Thomas* J. Knox, son of SamueP Knox, Jr., was born 
February 21, 1831; married three times: first wife was Maggie 
Brannar. One son, SamueP L. Knox, of Alpine, Ga. He mar- 
ried Louisa Holland. 

Issue. 

1 Thomas® J. Knox. 

2 Gertrude® Knox. 

3 Samuel® L. Knox, Jr. 



Samuel Kxox .wn Descexdaxts. Ill 

Thomas, Jr.'s, second wife \va? Ann Montgomery. Had one 
son. Robert T^ee Knox, married Kunice Holland. Third wile. 
Jane Maddox. One daughter ^larv Knox; died single. 

SECTIOX V. 

13 Eliza* Agnes Knox, daughter of Samuel'' Knox, Jr., was 
born July 14. 183:^. She was the youngest of the family (except 
one daughter who never married), and the record says that she 
bore well the name of Knox, was a cultivated and refined lady, 
remarkably bright and cheerful. She married Dr. R. Y. Rudicil, 
in 185: : died January, 1897. 

Dr. Rudicil Avas a South Carolinian by birth, born in Spartan- 
burg. He graduated in medicine in 1855, in Charleston, S. C. 
Served four years a field surgeon in the Confederate States Army, 
at all the great battles of the Western Army, from PerrA'ville, 
Ky.. to surrender at Greensboro, X. C. Represented his county 
six years in the House of Representatives. He wa;s surgeon of 
North Georgia Brigade, U. C. V. ; resides near Summerville, Ga. 
His grandfather Rudicil came to America from Wurtemburg, 
Germany, during the Revolution; was at the battle of Camden, 
Eutaw, S. C, wounded there; served under General Greene in 
campaign through the Carolinas, and was at surrender of Corn- 
wallis at Yorktown. He settled in Lincoln count}', N". C, w'here 
Dr. Rudicil's father was born. On his mother's side (like the 
Knoxes) his ancestors came from that land across the sea, from 
whence has come so much that has made this eounitry great and 
grand. Children of Eliza Agnes Knox and Dr. R. Y. Rudicil : 

1 ]\Iadora^ Eva May Rudicil, who it is said is very much like 
her mother. She was a graduate of Rome Female College; mar- 
ried W. H. Henry, Judge of Su|X^rior Courts, Rome Circuit, 

Rome, Ga. 

Issue. 

1 Mary" E. Henry. 

2 Willie« Rudicil Henry. 

3 Charles" R. Henry. 

4 Clara" Henry. 

5 Roy" 0. Henry. 

6 Evelvn" Henrv. 



112 The Knox Family. 

2 Dr. C.^ C. L. Kudicil, of Chickamauga. He is a graduate 
of the State University at Athens, Ga., and of the Atlanta Medi- 
cal College ; also of the Polyclinic Schools, N. Y. He married 
Lydia Eowland. 

Issue. 

1 Robert® Young Endicil. 

2 Eena® Endicil. 

3 Eowland® Knox Eudicil. 

3 De Verde Eudicil, Summerville, Ga. 



li Evelyn* Knox, daughter of Samuel Knox, Jr., never mar- 
ried. 



CHAPTER VII. 
James Kxox and Descendants. 

JAMES^ KNOX was one of the seven sons of Johiii Knox, 
emigrant, and wife, Jean Gracy Knox. He was born in 
1752 (as we learn from the date on his tombg»tone), in Rowan 
county, N". C. He served as a captain in the Revolutionary War. 
Jenkins, in his Life of James K. Polk, allucles to him as captain. 
(He was the grandfather of President Polk.) From Wheeler's 
History of North Carolina, page 358, we learn that Captain 
James Knox, the maternal ancestor of James K. Polk, refused to 
join, in July, 1768, Governor Tryon against the Regulators. 

Wheeler says: "In Governor Tryon's original journal, procured 
from the archives of the English government, we can see his 
actions and admire the spirit of a Knox, maternal ancestor of 
James K. Polk, who refused to join him with his troops." 

"Violent as the acts of the Regulators were, the subsequent 
oppressive conduct of the crown officers justified their conduct. 
The clerk of Rowan county (Thomas Frohawk) was allowed to 
charge $15 for a marriage license." From the records at Raleigh 
we learn that the name, James Knox, is found on page 34, Book 
No. 2, Public Accounts. See official certificate from Auditor's 
Department, Raleigh, N. C, on page 35. 

Mrs. William Polk, widow of one of his grandsons, has in her 
possession his old kneebuckle. Mr. Polk had it carefully wrapped 
and labeled, "Kne^buckel of my grandfatilier Knox, and worn by 
him when an officer in the Rev. war." Mrs. Polk sends a pen 
drawing of the buckle, which is here inserted. 




114 The Knox Family. 

It contains fifty small stones, and four larger ones, set in 
silver, as was the fashion of that d'ay. The stones are very bril- 
liant, and altogether the relic is untarnished and well pre- 
served. 

The site of the old residence of Capt. James Knox, about two 
miles west of Huntersville, N. C, is still pointed out; no relic 
of it remains this 1904. In the old Hopewell Cemetery, in Meck- 
lenburg county, N. C, may be found the grave of Captain Knox, 
near the gate at the corner nearest the church. Inscription on 
tombstone. On large slab. 

Fond man the vision of a moment made 
Dream of a dream and shadow of a shade. 

CHere is carved ~| 
a man's face. J 

Vivit Post Fvnebra Virtus. 

In Memory of 

CAPT. JAMES KNOX, 

Who, in hope of a glorious Resurrection to eternal Life, deceased Oct^ 
10th, in the year of the Christian Aera 1794. Aged 42 years. 

To continue his Memory in the minds of his surviving Friends and 
to perpetuate a Character in which were united the tender Husband, the 
affectionate Parent, & good citizen ; and by whom were cultivated Justice, 
Generosity, Probity & Sincerity. 

This Monument 

is erected by the faithful & grateful Partner of his Life & Affections." 

[On outside of large slab.] 
Vital spark of heavenly Flame, 
Quit, O Quit, this mortal Frame, 
Trembling, hoping, lingering flying: 
O the pain, the Bliss of dying. 
Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife. 
And let me languish into life. 
Cease, then, frail Nature, to lament ^n vain. 
Reason forbids to wish him back again. 

[Inside of small slab.] 
C: J. K. 



James Knox and Descendants. 115 

(The large slab is about one inch thick, eighteen inches broad, 
and thirty-six inches high. The foot stone is 1 x 8 x 12 inches.) 

The will of James Knox, which we copy here, was obtained 
from the county records in Charlotte, N". C, after the pages and 
sections were numbered. 

James Knox's Will. 

In the name of God, Amen. I, James Knox, of Mecklenburg 
county, in Xorth Carolina, in a sickly state of body, but of sound 
mind and memory, thanks to God for all his mercies to me, call- 
ing to mind the mortality of my body, knowing all men must 
die, and after that the judgment, I do therefore recommend my 
soul to Almighty God who gave it, not doubting but I shall re- 
eeive the same again at the general resurrection by the mighty 
power of God, and my body I recommend to the earth, dust to 
dust; and as touching such worldly estate as God hath blessed 
me with in this life, I hereby will give, bequeath and dispose of 
in the following manner and form, viz. : I will give and bequeath 
to my dearly beloved wife, Lydia Knox, in heir of her dower, 
viz., one negro woman named Elsie and her child Phebe, two 
feather beds, and furniture complete, one horse and the bale 
saddle and bridle, fine cows and calves, her choice, and the 
kitchen and household furniture, not disposed in this will shall 
be divided share and share alike among my said wife, and my 
two daughters, Jane and Naomi. And the better to enable my 
said wife, Lydia, to live comfortable and happy with our children 
during her widowhood, I hereby will, order and direct that s'he 
shall or may live on the land and enjoy the premises on which I 
now live, and enjoy the profits thereof during her widowhood, 
and to enable her to work the farm she shall have the use of my 
negro man named Hamp, and the brown mare named Till, and 
also all the farming tools and implements which my executors 
may judge necessary to work ^aid farm during her widowhood. 

Item. I will give and bequeath to my beloved son, Robert, two 
negro boys named Sandy and Charley, one feather bed and bed- 
ding, and his horse he now has with him. 



116 The Knox Family. 

Item. I will give enfoeff, convey and set over unto my be- 
loved son, Thomas, one negro boy, named Dick, one feather bed, 
and furniture or bedding, and also the whole of the lands I am 
possessed of on which I now live, his heirs and assigns forever, 
subject nevertheless to the above incumbrance of his mother's 
dower and also to the following restrictions and limitations here- 
inafter mentioned in this will, also to my said son Thomas a colt 
now suckling its dam named Lot, which mare is now given to 
Naomi. I will and bequeath to my beloved daughter Jane two 
negro girls named Violet and Lou, one feather bed and complete 
full furniture, one mare called Silver, saddle and bridle, three 
cows and calves and the third of the household and kitchen fur- 
niture, as mentioned in her mother's bequeathment. 

I will give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Xaomi two 
negro girls named Min and Biney one feather bed and complete 
furniture, one mare called Sal, saddle and bridle, three cows 
and calves, and the third of the household and kitchen furniture, 
as mentioned in her mother's bequeathment. 

Further. It is my will and pleasure, and I hereby order my 
executors to settle and convey all the residue of my estate not 
herein bequeathed and the money arising therefrom, together 
with other monies which may be collected from notes, accounts, 
etc., and after paying all just debts, shall be divided equally share 
and share alike, among my said beloved wife and our four chil- 
dren. And also at the death of my said wife, or expiration of 
her widowhood as the case may be, that my executors shall sell 
the said negro man. Hamp, the mare named Till, and the re- 
mainder of the farming tools and implements herein given my 
said wife, Ijydia, and the moneys arising therefrom shall be 
equally divided among my said four children; and farther, if 
any of said children should die before they severally arrive at 
the age of twenty-one, or even after said period, if he, she or they 
should die having no legal- heirs of their body, or other legal 
heirs, beside mother or sister, that then his or her bequeathment, 
share or dividend shall be equally divided among the survivors, 
whether male or female. 

And lastly, whereas, I have in this will conveyed to my son 



James Knox and Descendaxts. 117 

Thomas the lands on which I now live with a condition, which 
condition is this that if said Thomas should die, having no heirs, 
then my said executors shall sell the said land for tho best price 
they can get, giving first to enhance the price (provided that my 
said wife's dower will admit sd. sale, and the moneys arising 
from said land, shall be paid, viz., to my said 5on Robt. or his 
legal representatives, the sum of 100 lbs. and the remainder to 
be equally divided among the surviving children, viz., Robt. and 
his sisters, Jane and Naomi, or other legal representatives, and 
provided also that my 'Said son Thomas should not die, and if 
after a period of years my executors should be decidedly of 
opinion that the price of said lands would be of much greater 
value to him, the sd. Thomas, than the land. itself, that then my 
said executors may if they please sell and convey the same (pro- 
vided as before as to dower) and the moneys arising shall be 
especially applies to the sole use of him, the said Thomas, as my 
executors may judge proper; and also if my said executors are 
also of opinion (as in the last case stated may, if they judge fit, 
sell the negro boy, Dick, the colt and beds and bedding be- 
queathed to my sd. son Thomas, and the price arising divided 
equally among Robt., Jane, and Naomi, or their legal represen- 
tatives. And in order my said executors may perfect a legal 
title to sd. lands, in case they sell in either cases as before related, 
I do therefore sell and convey unto my said executors, Lydia 
Knox, Hugh Torrenoe and John Sharp all and singular the part 
of land on whidi I now live, containing near 400 acres, with all 
the improvements thereon or thereto. Lastly, I hereby nominate 
and apix)int my beloved wife and my trusty friend, Hugh Tor- 
rence and John Sharpe to be my whole and sole executors, of this 
my last will and testament, hereby revoking all other and every 
former will. In witness whereof I have set my hand and seal 
this 24:th September, 1794. 

James Kxox. {Seal.) 

Agnes Doherty, Richard Berry. J. M. L. Alexander, witnesses. 



118 The Knox Family. 

Genealogy of the Family of James- Kxox, as Far as We 

HAVE BEEN AbLE TO TrACE IT. 

James- Kirox married Miss Lydia Gillespie, and, by the will, 
had four children, 1 Jean, or Jane, Xaomi, Robert and Thomas. 
Of Xaomi and Thomas we know nothing more tlian is recorded 
in the will. For record of Eobert Knox and family, see Section 
V. of this chapter. 

* Jean^ Gracy Knox, eldest daughter of James- Knox (son of 
John^ Knox, emigrant) married Samuel Polk, December 25, 
179-i, near Hopewell Church. Of her we know but litt-le, except 
that she was said to have been a most excellent and pious woman. 
We note that sJie had her grandmother's name. For sketch of 
Samuel Polk, see p. 134, Section VI. 

Children of Jean Knox and Samuel Polk, names and date of 
birth as follows (copied from the old family Bible, in Columbia, 
Tenn.) : 

II. 1 James* Knox Polk, eldest son of Samuel and Jean 
Knox Polk, was born ]^ovember 2, 1795; married ]\Iiss Sarah 
Childress in 182-1. For portrait and sketch, see Section II. of 
this chapter. 

II. 2 Jane* Maria Polk was born in North Carolina January 
14, 1798; married James Walker, in Maury county, Tenn., Feb- 
ruary 24, 1813. They had eleven children. See Section III. 

3 Lydia* Eliza Polk, second daughter of Samuel and Jeanette 
Polk, w^as born February 17, 1800; married, first time. Dr. Silas 
M. Caldwell, by whom she had two sons : 

1 SamueP Polk Caldwell. 

2 James^ Knox Caldwell. 

She married, second time, a Mr. Richmond. 



4 Ezekiel* Franklin Polk, born August 23, 1802; died un- 
married. 



a The descendants have the name Jca7i, or Jeanette, Oracy Knox, 
though in the will of James Knox it is Jane. 



James Knox and Descendants. 119 

5 Marshall* T. Polk, son of Samuel and Jeanette Polk, was 
born January 17, 1805; married Miss Laura T. Wilson, of 
North Carolina, in 1827. They had two children: 

1 Eunice^ 0. Polk, died in childhood. 

2 MarshalP T. Polk, Jr., married Evelina M. Bills; had ten 
children, viz. : 

1 Edward". 

2 James" K. 

3 Mary" W. 

4 Laura" P. 

5 Eunice" 0. 

6 Clara" A. 

7 Marshall" T. 

8 Evelyn M." 

9 Leonidas". 
10 Thomas". 

Three of these died in infancy, viz. : Edward, Clara and 
Thomas. 

2 James" Knox Polk married Mary Hittlee. Five children: 

1 James^ K. 

2 Kelsey^. 

3 Albert^ M. 

4 Edward^ M. 

5 Lawrence^. 

3 Mary" W. Polk married A. H. Kortrecht; have five chil- 
dren : 

1 Charles' M. 

2 Humphreys^. 

3 Evelyn^ 

4 Eunice^ 

5 Augustus''. 

5 Eunice" Ophelia Polk married Jesse R. Norton ; three chil- 
dren, viz. : 

1 Evel}Ti^ M. 

2 Frederick'^. 

3 Jesse^ Rowland. 



120 The Knox Family. 

G John* Lee Polk, born March 23, 1807; died single. 

7 ISTaorai* L. Polk, born July, 1809; married A. 0. Harris. 
Four daughters: 

1 Amelia^ Harris. 

2 Maria' Harris. 

3 Laura*^ Harris. 

4 Mulvina^ Harris. 

8 Ophelia* C. Polk, daughter of Samuel and Jeanette Polk, 
was born September 6, 1812; married Dr. J. B. Hays. Dr. 
Hays was James K. Polk's f^amily physician for twenty years; 
was sent for during his last illness. They left two daughters: 

1 Virginia" Hays married Edmund Lee, and left one son. 

2 Naomi*^ Hays, bom in Columbia, Tenn., married Major 
W. E. Moore, Helena, Ark. ; had one daughter, Ophelia® Moore, 
who was killed in the Bostian Bridge disaster near Statesville, 
N. C. Mrs. Moore was so shocked in the wreck that she never 
entirely recovered, though she lived two years afterwards, and 
died in Helena, Ark., and was buried by the side of her daugh- 
ter, for whom she had sent to Italy and had a beautiful monu- 
ment carved. j\Irs. Moore erected a home for orphan girls in 
Helena to the memory of her daughter, called the "Ophelia Polk 
Moore Home." She was a prominent member of the Episcopal 
Church, and a promoter of all charitable institutions. She took 
a very active part in securing monuments to the Contederate 
dead in her city. (Part of these items are taken from a memo- 
rial sketch of her that came out in a newspaper shortly after her 
death.) Maj Moore, her husband, was on General Hood's staff. 



9 William* Hawkins Polk, son of Samuel and Jeanette Gracy 
Knox Polk, was born May 24, 1815, in Maury county, Tenn. He 
was next youngest of a large family of children, and James K. 
Polk the eldest. Their father spent the early years of his life in 
Mecklenburg county, N". C. ; afterwards removed to Maury 
county, Tenn., in 1806. William Polk received his academic 
education in his native State, came to the Universitj' of North 




vVlLLiAM H. POLK. 




PRESIDENT JAMES K- POLK- 



James Kxox and Dlscendaxts. 121 

Carolina to finish his collegiate course; returned to Tennessee, 
studied law and obtained license. Under Tyler's administration 
he was United States minister to the court of Rome and Naples. 
He was an officer in the ^Mexican war (Major of Third Dra- 
goons) ; was also member of Congress from Tennessee. He 
died in Xashville, Tenn., in 1862, aged forty-seven 3'ears. He 
first married Miss Corse, of New York, by whom he had one son: 

James'^ Knox Polk. 

In 185-1 he married, second time. Miss Lucy E. Williams, who 
is still living in Warrenton, N. C, and who has kindly furnished 
much of the data for the Polk branch. It will be remembered 
that it was she who sent us the drawing of the kneebuckle worn 
by James Knox, her grandfather-in-law, when in the Revolution. 
They had two sons: William'^ and Tasker^ Polk. 

1 William^ Polk was a promising young lawyer; died in Bir- 
mingham. Ala., in 188G. 

2 Tasker"' Polk, a gifted wTiter and lawyer, married Eliza 
Tannahill Jones. They have two children : : 

1 William" Polk. 

2 Uavy" Polk. 



10 Samuel* Polk, youngest son of Samuel and Jeanotte Polk, 
was born October IT, 1817; died single. 

SECTION II. 

James* Knox Polk, the eleventh President of the United 
States, was born near Charlotte, in Mecklenburg county, N. C, 
November 2, 1795. He was the eldest of ten children. His 
father was Samuel Polk, son of Ezekiel Polk, else where men- 
tioned. His mother was Jean, or Jeanette Knox, daughter of 
James Knox, of Revolutionary fame, of Rowan county, N. C, 
for whom her first son was named. This James Knox, as ha? 
already been stated, was a son of John Knox, emigrant^ 

From Jenkins' Life of James K. Polk we gather much of the 
following sketch: 



122 The Kxox Family. 

Jniiics, in hi? boyhood days, in tlio humble position in life 
"which hi? parents occupied, learned lessons of economy, industry, 
integrity and virtue, which were never forgo^en. He assisted his 
father in the management of liis farm, and accompanied him on 
his surveying excursions, treading the dense forests and through 
the rough cane brakes, exposed to all kinds of weather, and the 
dangers and vicissitudes of a life in the woods. It was the duty 
of James on these excursions to take care of the pack-horses and 
camp equipage; also to prepare the frugal meals for the party. 
He was fond of reading and study, and his chief desire was to 
obtain a liberal education ; a profession was the great end to- 
ward which he aimed. His habits, formed by the moulding hand 
of an exemplary mother peculiarly fitted him for success in 
future life. 

The father of young Polk, though not in affluent circum- 
stances, managed to keep him pretty constantly in school. In 
July, 1813, he was sent to lihe Murfreesboro Academy, then 
superintended by Mr. Samuel Black, one of the most celebrated 
classical teachers in Middle Tennesisee. In 1815 he entered the 
University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, which was then 
under the charge of the Eev. Dr. Joseph Caldwell. It is said 
that while a student at the University, he was never absent from 
recitation or religious service in the institution, during his whole 
collegiate term. He graduated in June, 1818, with the highest 
honors. Mr. Polk did not forget his Alma Mater. At the com- 
mencement in June, 1847, the honorary degree of Doctor of 
Laws was conferred upon him. In 1819 he entered the law office 
of Felix Grundv, at Nashville, Tenn. In 1820 he returned to 
]\raury county, Ix'gan to practice law among the companions of 
his boyhood. During his residence in Nashville, young Polk won 
the esteem of General Andrew Jackson, who proved a friend in- 
deed to the youthful politician.'' He was a member of the Ten- 

b "Recollections of the past undoubtedly aided to strengthen the 
friendship of General Jackson for Mr. Polk. When the former was 
obliged to fly with his mother and brother befor^^ the army of Corn- 
wallis, in the war of the Revolution, they took refuge in Mecklenburg 
county, N. C, and resided for some time with the neighbors and friends 
of Mr. Polk's father and grandfather." Foote's Sketches, pp. 199, 476. 



James Knox and Descendants. 123 

nessee Legislature in 1823 and 1824. He became widely popular 
a? a ]X)litical speaker and won the flattering title of the Napoleon 
of the stump. On January 1, 1824, he married Miss Sarah Chil- 
dress, daughter of Mr. Joel Childress, a wealthy and enterpris- 
ing' merchant of Kutherford county, Tenn. Of Mrs. Polk it has 
been said that she was well fitted to adorn any station, highly 
accomplished, a fine person, affable but dignified, sincere and 
courteous.. Her winning deportment and unfailing courtesy were 
remarked by every 'one who saw her presiding at the White 
House. In 1825 Mr. Polk was elected to Congress, and served 
fourteen years. During five sessions he was speaker of the 
House. During this long and arduous service he was never 
known to be absent from the House for a single day. In 1839 he 
was elected Governor of Tennessee, and five years later was 
named as the candidate of the Democratic party for President of 
the United States. The campaign of 1844 was a hard-fought 
one — Henry Clay, a powerful orator and a distinguished states- 
man was the Whig nominee. The Democratic candidate had at 
least one opponent in his own family, namely, Cadwallader Polk, 
"afterwards a gallant officer in the Confederate Army. He was at 
this time only six }'ears old. Seeing his cousin, James K., pass 
the house, he rushed out and cheered for Henry Clay. Cadwalla- 
der's father soon appeared on the scene striving to implant Dem- 
ocratic principles by means of a riding whip to the offensive 
young partisan. Polk turned back pleading, "Don't whip the 
little chap; he does not know he has done wrong." "James,"' 
replied the father. Dr. William Julius Polk, plying tihe whip 
with undiminished energy, "I intend to teach him that he has 
done wrong." The election was decided in Mr. Polk's favor. 
And in January, 1845, he and Mrs. Polk, accompanied by a few 
personal friends, left his home in Tennessee for the inauguration 
in Washington, travelling by boat, carriage and train, several 
weeks being consumed by the joprney from Nashville to Wash- 
ington. 

The annexation of Texas, the settlement of the Oregon boun- 
dary question, and the addition of California and New Mexico 
to the territory of the United States made President Polk's ad- 



124 The Knox Family. 

ministration memorable. A quotation from a daily paper of that 
day will show the regard in which he was held by his fellow- 
countrymen. It says, "We confess that we admire the man, not 
less for the stern integrity and purity of his private life, and the 
noble qualities of his personal character, than for the honorable 
and commanding station which he holds as the reward of his 
political integrity, his private virtue, and his personal worth." 

At the expiration of his term, Polk retired to his home, Polk 
Place, in Nashville, Tenn., where, in the yard enclosure, stands 
the monument, beneath which he and wife, Mrs. Polk, lie buried. 
He died June 15, 1849, in his fifty-fourth year. It is said that 
half an hour preceding the death of James K. Polk, his vener- 
able mother entered the room, and kneeling by his bedside, of- 
fered up a beautiful prayer to the King of kings and Lord of 
lords, committing the soul of her son to his holy keeping. 

Mr. Polk had no children'. We are informed that he adopted 
one of his brother Marshall's sons — Marshall T. Polk, Jr. — to 
whom he bequeathed part of his property. James K. was said 
to have been a sincerely pious man, though he never united with 
any church. His wife was a Presbyterian. She died in 1891. 

Since the foregoing sketc'h of James K. Polk was prepared, we 
gather the following from a newspaper article (of date Septem- 
ber, 1904), on the im veiling of a "Polk Monument," erected on 
the identical site of the birthplace of James K. Polk, in Meck- 
lenburg county, X. C, on little Sugar Creek, nine miles south 
of Charlotte, and one mile from Pineville. 

The monument was unveiled with appropriate exercises, under 
the direction of the Mecklenburg Chapter of the Daughters of 
the American Eevolution, who were insitrumental in erecting it. 
The monument is fifteen feet high, built of rubble stone, pyra- 
midal in shape, six feet at base. 

One of the speakers of the occasion said, in the beginning of 
his address, "Here upon tl)-is spot was born one of the great men 
of earth. He came of. a great race of people. They were dia- 
monds unpolished, but diamonds of the first water." Another 
address began, "A few years ago, as I stood in front of the grand 
monument erected to his memory in the capitol square at Nash- 



James Knox and Descendants. 125 

ville, Tonn., I thoug'ht that his adopted state might honor liim 
as her distinguished citizen, legislator, Congressman and Gov- 
ernor, and the United States might honor him as her President, 
but Mecklenburg county, N. C, would claim him as her own 
^on." 

In 1893 his remains were removed, by the State, from Polk 
Place to the capitol square. 

The Polks were leading men in their day, and tigured promi- 
nently in the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. James 
K. Polk's great-great-grandfather, Robert Polk, was a native of 
Scotland, and married Magdalen Tusken, the heiress of a large 
estate. His son, Robert, emigrated to this country in 1735. 

SECTION III. 

2 Jane* Maria Polk, eldest daughter of Major Samuel Polk 
and wife, Jeanette Knox Polk, was born in, or near, Charlotte, 
N. C. While a mere girl she removed with her father and family 
to Maury county, Terni., about the year 1806, and in 1813, in 
her sixteenth year, she married James Walker, Esq. In 1829 she 
became a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and ever 
after lived a faithful, consistent member. She was a cheerful 
Christian, kind and charitable to the poor and the afflicted, often 
ministering to their wants. 

From a copy of her obituary sent me by her granddaughter, 
Mrs. Boon, of Carthage, Mo., we learn something of the life and 
character of this noble woman. Well and nobly did she fill her 
sphere in life. "Her children arise up and call her blessed." 
At her death, she was one of the oldest inhabitants of Columbia,- 
Tenn., having come out when the whole country was but a wil- 
derness. She was stricken with paralysis or apoplexy, and died 
in Columbia, Tenn., October 11, 1876, in her seventy-ninth year. 
The remains were laid to rest in the' old family burying ground 
in Greenwood Cemetery, by the side of her husband, who pre- 
ceded her to the grave. 

James Walker was born in Fayette county, Ky., May 29, 1792. 
Their children are as follows: 



126 The Knox Family. 

1 Samueb"' P. Walker, eldest son of Jane Maria Polk and 
James Walker, born 1814; married Eleanor T. Wormley; had 
a large family of children, viz. : 

1 Maria® Walker, married first John Senoma. 

Issue. 
1 Son, John Senoma, Jr. 

2 Catharine® H. Walker married Dr. James Correy. 

Issue. 

1 Xellie" Correy married Gates. 

2 James^ Correy. 

3 James® Walker, the eldest son of Samuel P. Walker. He 
was a lieutenant in the Confederate Army. He was killed at 
the battle of Belmont, aged twenty-two years. 

4 John® Warner Walker married Annie A. Newell. 

5 Samuel® P. Walker, Jr., married Maggie McRea. 

Issue. 

1 Jennie" Walker. 

2 Valerie' Walker. 

3 Samuel' Walker. 

4 Howard^ Walker. 

6 William® Pickett Walker, 

7 Ellen® W. Walker. 

8 Joseph® Knox Walker. 

9 Mary® Walker. 

10 Elizabeth® Walker. 



2 James'' Hays Walker, born .1816, married Sophie Davis. 

IV. 3 Joseph^ Knox Walker, born 1818. 

4 Jane^' E. Walker, born 1820, married Isaac X. Barnett. 

Issue. 

1 Maria® Barnett married Gen. George D. Johnston, C. S. A. 

2 Edward® Ryland Barnett. 

3 Rosa® Barnett. 

4 Mary® Pickett Barnett married W. J. Hine. 

5 Walker® Barnett. 



James Knox and Dlscendants. 127 

5 Mary=^ E. Walker, born 1823; married W. S. Pickett. 

Issue. 

1 Jane*"' Walker Pickett married Isaac Saffarans. 

2 William" S. Pickett. 

3 James*"' Hays Pickett. 

4 Horac^"^ Pickett. 

5 Annie" Duncan Pickett. 

6 Mary** Knox Pickett. 

7 Maria« Marshal Pickett. 



6 Sallie^' X. Walker, born 1825 ; married Dr. J. B. Green. 

Issue. 

1 James" Walker Grreen. 

2 Thomas" Jefferson Green. 

3 Fannie" Burlin Green. 

4 Maria" Polk Green. 

5 Jane" Barnett Green. 



T Annie-"' Maria Walker, born 1827; married Lemuel H. 
Phillips. 

8 Lucius"' Marshall Walker, born 1829 ; married Cellie Garth. 
He was a general in the Confederate Army; was killed in a duel 
by General John S. Marmaduke. Col. Robert H. Crokett, grand- 
son of historic Davy Crockett, was Walker's second. 

(It is said that during the four A'ears of carnage, known in 
history as the war of secession, there occurred no single incident 
of a more romantic or thrilling character than the duel fought 
near Little Rock, Ark., l)etween Generals Walker and Marma- 
duke.) 

Issue. 

1 Annie" McNeal Walker. 

2 Lizzie" Garth Walker. 

3 Marshall" Walker. 



128 The Knox Family. 

9 Andrew' Jackson Walker, bom 1834; married Susan W. 
Watts. He served in the Confederate Army, in Thirtieth Louis- 
iana Regiment, on the staff of General L. Marshall Walker. He 
resides in Charleston, Mo. 

Issue. 

1 Thomas® Watts Walker, born 1856; married Eva Fredistice. 

2 Annie® Maria Walker, born 1856; married William E.. Cole, 
Charleston, Mo. 

•Issue, 

1 James Walker Cole, Manila, Phillipine Islands, Sixth Ar- 
tillery, Battalion D, U. S. A. 

2 Henry M. Cole. 

3 Naomi® Hays Walker, born 1858; married J. A. McNeely, 
St. Louis. 

Issue. 

1 Andrew^ W. McNeely. 

2 Susan^ W. McNeely. 

3 Mary^ McNeely. 

4 Grace^ Watts McNeely. 

5 Katharine^ McNeely. 

6 J.' A. McNeely, Jr. 

4 James® Walker, born 1861, Washington City; married, first, 
Jennie Seott, 

Issue. 

1 Thomas^ J. Walker. 

2 Mary^ Walker. 

James Walker's second wife, Katharine S.; one son: 
A. J.' Walker, Jr. 



10 Ophelia' Lazinka Walker, bom 1837. 

11 Leonidas' Polk Walker, born 1839. 



Jamks Knox axd Descendants. 129 



SECTION IV. 

Joseph' Knox Walker, third son of James Walker and wife, 
Jane Maria Polk Walker, was born in Columbia, Tenn. He 
graduated with first honors at Yale College. After leaving Yale 
he entered the law ofllice of James K. ,Polk (his uncle) and Gid- 
eon J. Pillon. He left the law to become private secretary to his 
uncle, Polk, when he became President. He, with wife and chil- 
dren, moved to Washington city, and lived in the White House 
for several years. While there two children were born to him, 
namely, Sally, named for Mrs. Polk, born March 15, 1846, and 
Joseph Knox Walker, Jr., born September, 1847, After Mr. 
Polk's term expired, Mr. Walker remained in Washington for 
a year or two and practiced law. He moved to Memphis in 1853 
to become agent of the Bank of Charleston, the Memphis and 
Charleston liailroad was then to be built, and he received the 
appointment from the president of the Bank of Charleston. 

He represented Shelby county in the Senate in 1856 and 1857. 
In i\.pril, of 1861, he raised, and was elected colonel of, the Sec- 
ond Tennessee Regiment, the first regiment raised in Memphis. 
After the battle of Belmont is was called the "Bloody Second." 
Colonel Walker made himself very distinguished both at Bel- 
mont and Shiloh. On account of ill health he had to leave the 
army, and died in Memphis, August, 1863. He was one of the 
highest Masons in the United States. Colonel Walker married 
Augusta Adams Tabb, of Lynchburg, Va. She died in 1860. 
They had ten children : 

1 Maria^ Polk Walker, born 1843 ; married General Frank C. 
Armstrong, C. S. A., April 27, 1863, in Columbia, Tenn. She 
died August, 1872, ill Springfield, Mo., and buried there. 

Issue. 

1 Belle'' Armstrong, born 1864, Washington city. 

2 Knox^ Walker Armstrong, born 1865; died 1867. 

Belle^ Armstrong joined the D. A. R., through the names of 
Capt. James Knox, her great-great-grandfather, and Colonel 
Ezekiel Polk, of Mecklenburg fame. 



130 The Knox Family. 

2 Capt. Henry" Tabb Walker (Hal), born 1844; married Bes- 
sie Hare, December 11, 1866, Montgomery, Ala. 

Issue. 

1 Croome^ Walker, born 1868; married Mary Thornton, a 
Uneal descendant of Greorge Washington. 

Issue. 

1 Knox^ P. Walker. 

2 George^ Washington Thornton Walker. 

3 Croome® Walker. 

2 Augusta'^ Knox Walker, born 1872. 

3 James^ Ware Walker, born 1873. 

4 Bessie^ Walker. 



3 Sally" Walker, daughter of Joseph Knox Walker and Jane 
Maria Polk Walker, was born in the White House in 1846, mar- 
ried Major Hampton LjTich Boon, C. S. A., July 12, 1866, in 
Memphis, Tenn. We are indebted to Mrs. Boon for much of the 
data pertaining to the Polk and Walker families, for the loan 
of Jenkins' Life of James K. Polk; also for an article from her 
pen, on "Children of the White House," which we copy in No. 
VIII. of this chapter. (It has already been seen that Sally 
Walker's father was private secretary to James K. Polk at the 
time of her birth.) 

Issue. 

1 Samuel^ Walker Boon, born April, 1867, in Memphis. 

2 William^ Crawford Boon, bom January 28, 1872, Fremont, 
Nebraska. 

3 Lucy^ Hampton Boon, born December 11, 1874, in Cali- 
fornia, Mo. 

4 Eiley^ Boon, born January 11, 1876, in San Francisco, Cal. 

5 Sally^ Knox Boon, bom August 14, 1879. Denver, Col. 
Riley Boon, bom the centennial year, was his grandmother's 

one hundredth descendants He died August 15, 1890. 



James Knox and Descendants. 131 

4 Joseph" Knox Walker, Jr., born in the White House, in 
18-47. He was thrown from a pony and killed in 1857, aged ten 
years. 

5 Samuel® Polk Walker, of California, born 1849; married 
Laura Thornton. 

Issue. 

1 HaF Thornton Walker. 

2 Nellie^ Knox Walker, died Christmas day, 1882, at Fort 
Smith, Ark. 



6 Augusta" Tabb Walker, born 1850 ; died 1860. 

7 Nellie" Knox Walker, born 1852; married John Gardner. 

8 Barnett" Walker (Chicago), born 1854; married Kate Aus- 
tin. 

Issue. 

1 John^ Knox Walker. 

2 Name not known. 

9 Cettie" Walker, born 1855 ; died 1856. 

10 Gideon" Pillon Walker, born 1858; died 1859. 

SECTION V. 

2 Robert' Knox, son of James^ Knox, who was a son of John^ 
Knox, emigrant, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, with 
either the North Carolina or South Carolina troops. Had two 
sons: 

1 Robert* and 2 James. Robert K., Jr., settled in Kentucky, 
or Tennessee. We are not informed who he married. Had two 
sons, James' Knox and George^ Knox, both of whom had sons, 
some of them located in Indiana, near the town' Vevay. (This is 
all the data we have with referenpe to this branch.) 

2 James* Knox, son of Robert' Knox was born in South Caro- 
lina ; married Janet McElroy. Had four sons and four daugh- 
ters: 

1 Robert^ Knox died aged twenty-two years. 



133 The Knox Family. 

2 James^ Knox, Jr., born 1792; married Nancy Mills. He 
died in 1869. 

3 Henry^ Knox married Lncinda Hunter. 

4 Matthew^ Knox. 

5 Jane^ Knox married John Cameron. 

6 Mary^ Knox married Williams. 

7 Ann^ Knox. 

8 Elizabeth^ Knox married in Kentucky. 

We have succeeded in tracing only one of these, the second 
son, James, as follows : 

2 James^ Knox, Jr., son of James Knox and Janet McElroy, 
was bom in Union county, which was afterwards divided between 
North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. The part in which 
he was born was given to South Carolina. His wife Nancy Mills 
was the daughter of Adam Mills, son of William Mills, of same 
county. Her two brothers, Robert and David Mills, were the 
owners of the first line of ships that ever ran between New Or- 
leans and Liverpool ; a-nd the first bankers in the State of Texas, 
and at the breaking out of the civil war were the largest slave- 
owners in that State. Her sister, Mrs. James McDowell (Janet 
Mills) was the owner of the plantation at Vicksburg, Miss., 
which was the headquarters of General Grant during the seige 
of that city. Nancy Mills Knox died June 24, 1845. 

James Knox, Jr., and Nancy Mills had eight children : 

1 William^ James Knox, M. D., born October 20, 1820, in 
Christian county, Ky. He was a graduate of the University .of 
Kentucky, in 1847. Later studied medicine and graduated as 
M. D. from the same institution. He removed to California on 
account of ill health. He was one of four men who built the 
South Yuba Canal, which supplied water to the great gold min- 
ing region of California. The canal was over four hundred 
miles long, and drew its water supply from over twenty lakes be- 
longing to the company. .He was a member of the Assembly 
from Nevada county, Cal., in 1854; resigned in consequence of. 
feeble health, returned to the South. A few years later located 
in Santa Clara county, Cal., where he founded the first bank in 
that county, in partnership with his brother-in-law, T. Ellard 



James Knox and Descendants. 133 

Beans, under the name of Knox & Beans, Bankers, and was 
president until his death, when the bank name was changed to 
Bank of San Jose. He was elected State Senator for Santa 
Clara county, in 18G-4, and died in 1867, in San Francisco, before 
his term of office had expired. Left a widow and one child. 
His wife's name was Sarah Louise Browning, born in Culpeper 
county, Va. She was still living in 1899. 

Issue. 

1 Virginia" Kno.x, only daughter of Dr. William James Knox, 
married Cabell Maddox; resides in San Francisco, Cal. She is 
much interested in the history of the Knox family; kindly sent 
us data for this branch. She took a copy of the Knox tree several 
years ago. She acted as State regent for the D. A. R. for six 
years. Had one son : 

Knox® Maddox, a student in Yale University when ihis record 
was sent. 



2 Mary*^ Knox, daughter of James Knox, Jr., married Mal- 
colm Hill, Lagrange, Texas. 

Issue. 

1 Nannie Hill married Knox Thompson. 



3 Virginia" Knox married T. Eflard Beans, president of Bank 
of San Jose, Cal. She died 18G1. 

Issue, 
1 \Yilliam' Knox Beans, vice-president of Bank of San Jose, 
married Miss Gertrude Moore ; two children : 

1 Ellard- Henley Beans. 

2 Mildred^ Beans. 

2, Mary" Virginia Beans, San Jose, Cal. 



4 Rowena" Knox married Samuel Hart Benton, of Mississippi, 
was a major-general in Confederate Army, killed near Atlanta 



134 The Knox Family. 

in 18G4. General Benton was nephew of United States Senator 
Thomas H. Benton. 

Issue. 

1 SamueP H. Benton, Jr., an attorney in New York City. 

2 Willie Mills Benton, single. 

Rowena Knox Benton died in New York City, in 1891. 



5 Minnie* Knox married John Hutchings, Galveston, Texas. 
Of the firm. Ball, Hutchings & Seeley. 

6 Nannie^ Knox married Col. Thomas Jack, Galveston, Texas. 
On the staff of Albert Sidney Johnston, during the civil war. 

7 Margaret^ Knox married I. Newton- Dennis, Galveston. Col- 
onel in Confederate Army. 

8 Lucy^ Knox married Wilbur Ward Wright; died 1898. 
(All dead except Mrs. Mary Knox Hill, a widow, and Mrs. John 
Hutchings.) 

SECTION VI. 

Supplement to the Polk Branch of the Knox I-'amily. 

Samuel Polk, the father of James K. Polk, was a farmer; also 
a surveyor. He died in Columbia., Tenn., in 1837. He was a 
son of Ezekiel Polk, of Mecklenburg county, N. C. Ezekiel and 
Thomas Polk were brothers^; were active participants in the 
Mecklenburg Declaration. They with other influential men, such 
as Dr. Brevard and the Alexanders appeared to take the lead in 
the movement. It is said that Thomas Polk caused the Meck- 
lenburg Declaration of Independence to be drawn up, and read 
it to his fellow-citizens from the steps of the county courthouse, 
on the 30th of May, 1775. Years afterward an old Scotehman, 
who had settled in Carolina, paid him this tribute, "Oh! Aye; 
auld Tarn Polk declared independence lang before onybody 
else." " The founder of the Polk family in America was Robert 
Polk. His ancestors were of Scotch origin. They were among 
the colonists who settled in Ireland, and the name is a contrae- 



c Mecklenburg Declaration, p. 26. 



James Knox and Descendants. 135 

tion of Pollock. The first recorded deeds that attest tlie family's 
position in America are those bearing the name of Lord Balti- 
more, granting land on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to Robert 
Pollock, whose name about this time underwent the change to 
Polk. The estate thus granted retains its name of "Polk's 
Folly," and to the present day remains in the possession of the 
family. Robert Pollock, the elder, married Magdalen Tusker, 
the heiress of a considerable estate. Robert Pollock, the younger, 
married a Miss Gullet ; had several children, among them 
Thomas and Ezekiel, who came South about 1750, and settled 
in Mecklenburg, then a part of Anson county, N. C. 

These items respecting the Polk family were gathered from 
an article in the Munsey Magazine, and from Jenkins' Life of 
James K. PolTc. 

Major Hampton L. Boon, who married Sally Walker, daugh- 
ter of Joseph Knox Walker, was born in Fayette county. Mo., 
December, 1837, was a great-grandnephew of Daniel Boone. At 
the time he finished his course in the law school at Lebanon, 
Tenn., was the youngest student that ever graduated at that in- 
stitution. He was one of the original forty who located and 
named the city of Denver, Col. He was one among the first to 
enter the Confederate Army, and remained in active service to 
the close of the war. During the Missouri campaign he was 
taken prisoner seven time; was never exchanged, each time 
making his escape. He was said to be one of the bravest of the 
brave. He was not onlj' a true soldier in war, but also an exem- 
plary citizen in time of peace. For twenty-five years was an 
active worker in the New York Life Insurance- Company. He 
died at Ardmore, Ind. Ter., April 8, 1890; was buried in Car- 
thage, Mo., where his widow and children reside. 



SECTION VII. 

Extract from an article in the Daily American, Nashville, 
Tenn., May 25, 1892. Concerning President Polk's, will. 

The Polk will suit was decided in favor of the heirs. He died 
at Polk Place, Nashville, June 15, 1849, without children; was 



136 The Knox Family. 

buried on the same premises. His widow died in 1891; was also 
buried there. 

He devised his residence in the city of Nashville to his wife 
for life, and then provides as follows: 

"As my beloved wife and I have mutually agreed that at our 
respective deaths it is desired by us that our bodies may be in- 
terred on the said premises, which I have denominated the Polk 
Place ; and as it is also our desire that the said house, lots and 
premises should never pass into the hands of strangers who are 
not related to me by consanguinity, I do hereby, with a view to 
prevent such contingency, devise and liequeath the said house, 
lots and premises, and all the appurtenances thereunto belonging 
or appertaining, from and after the death of my said wife, to the 
State of Tennessee; but to be held by the State of Tennessee in 
trust for the following uses, objects and purposes, and none 
other: That is to say, the State of Tennessee, through its Gov- 
ernor for the time being, or, if he should decline to assume the 
execution of the said trust, then such other person as the Legisla- 
ture of the said State may, from time to time, authorize and 
empower for that purpose, shall permit the said house, lots and 
premises to be occupied, used and enjoyed by sucli one of my 
blood relations having the name of Polk as may be designated by 
the said State, or its authorized agent, preferring always my 
nearest kin of the name of Polk, if there be such a person who 
shall be deemed worthy, and a proper person to occupy the same. 
But, if at any time, there shall be no blood relation having the 
name of Polk, then the said house, lots and premises shall be 
occupied, used and enjoyed by such other of my blood relations 
as may be designated by the said State to execure this trust. 
Whichsoever of my blood relations shall after the death of my 
said wife, from time to time use, occupy and enjoy the said 
house, lots and premises shall be required to keep the same in 
repair, so as to prevent them from dilapidating or falling into 
decay, shall pay the public taxes thereon, and shall preserve and 
keep in repair the tomb which may be placed or erected over the 
mortal remains of my beloved wife and myself^ and shall not 
permit the same to be removed, nor shall any buildings or other 



James Knox axd Descexdaxts. KIT 

improvements be placed or erected over the spot where the said 
tomb may be. I request the public authorities of the State of 
Tennessee, whose people I hav>e so long served in various public 
stations, and to whom I am under so many obligations of grati- 
tude, at the death of my beloved wife to accept and execute the 
trust sjwcificd in this devise." 

"Polk Place" is located in the central quarter of the city and 
contains about one acre of land, valued at $50,000. A monu- 
ment has been erected upon the premises in front of the resi- 
dence, adjacent to one of the public streets, and there the testator 
and his wife are buried. The will was written by the testator, 
with his own hand, in the Executive Mansion at Washington, 
when he was President of the United States. 

The constitution of Tennessee provides that perpetuities are 
contrary to the genius of a free people, and shall not be allowed. 

As no one of the different intentions of the testator could be 
carried out maintaining a perpetuity, the whole will must be set 
aside so far as concerns "Polk Place," and that property turned 
over to his heirs-at-law. 

SECTION VIII. 
Children of the White House. 

The Cleveland babies are not the only ones born there. 

Eeminiscences of the four little folks of President Polk's 
household, told by "one of the children," now living in Carthage, 
Missouri. 

The following interesting story of White House children is 
contributed to the Republic by Mrs. H. L. Boon, of Carthage, 
Mo., widow of Major Hampton L. Boon, and great-niece of 
President James K.Polk. 

Mrs. Boon's childhood days were passed in the White House, 
and this bit of history of the little folks who were born and 
reared there is exceptionally entertaining. Mrs. Boon says, "Al- 
though much has been .written at various times regarding chil- 
dren of the White House, I have never seen a true account of my 
father's children, so I send you the following account." 



138 The Knox Family. 

It would seem from the story that boys have never at any time 
been as plentiful at the White House as girls in the past, and at 
present the three Cleveland babies may play with their dollies 
without fear of the noisy presence and interference of a boy. 

The little bunch of anecdotes and reminiscence* are told by 
Mrs. Boon as follows : 

"As we look in upon the White House during President Polk's 
administration, we see it made glad and happy with the prattle 
and laughter of little children. 

"When Colonel J. Knox Walker moved into the White House 
to become private secretary to his uncle, his beautiful wife, then 
only twenty-one, and two lovely children, Maria Polk, two years 
old, and Henry Tabb, who was called Hal, seven months old. 

"Col. J. Knox Walker was a very handsome man, with polished 
manners and a charming voice." 

In Appleton's Journal of March, 1875, I find this description 
of Mrs. Walker. The writer, speaking of a reception of Presi* 
dent Polk's, says, "Mrs. Polk was an elegant hostess, and she 
was assisted by Mrs. Knox Walker, a most beautiful creature, 
who possessed that charm of making any place look festive." 

After reading the above description, one can see why, of a 
large family of relatives, Mr. Polk selected Col. Walker for his 
private secretary, and desired him to bring his family to the 
White House. 

On March 15, 1846, on General Jackson's birthday, and in 
the room he had occupied, there was born a little girl. Col. 
Walker named his little girl Sarah, for Mrs. Polk, but she was 
always called Sally. This baby was not named Polk, as Col. 
Walker's oldest daughter was named Maria Polk for his mother, 
who was a sister of President Polk. 

As but few babies had previously been, bom in the White 
House, Mrs. Polk made arrangements for an elegant christening 
party, but when the rector of Christ Church, Rev. Mr. White 
Pine, was told about the party to be given, he said the rules of 
the church required all children to be brought to the church, 
except where sickness prevented. Mr.-^nd Mrs. Polk, not being 
Episcopalians, were quite provoked, and Col, Walker thought it 
best to let the matter drop. 



James Knox and Descendants. 13'J 

Little Sally, though a mite of a baby, must have made up her 
mind to be christened in the "White House, for shortly after- 
wards she was taken very ill. Dr. Miller did not think she 
would live, So Rev. Mr. White Pine was sent for in a hurry, 
and the baby was chrisitened in the White House. 

On December 9, 1847, J. Knox Walker, Jr., was born in the 
White House. If Sally was a little queen during her short reign, 
little Knox was made a baby king, for it was said that he was 
the first boy that was ever born in the White House. 

Mr. W. W. Corcoran, after the birth ofeach of these children, 
sent an elegant silver cup and spoon. These cups and spoons 
were the only presents of any value I ever heard of these children 
receiving, with one exception. Mrs. Polk ordered a breast-pin, 
and when it came, ear-rings were sent too. Mrs. Polk did not 
wear ear-rings, but Mrs. Walker handed her fifteen dollars, say- 
ing, "Aunt Sally, I will take them." They were gold harps. 
Mrs. Polk turned and handed the money to Col. Walker, with, 
the remark, "Knox, give this gold to little Sally with interest 
when she is fifteen years old." 

Maria Polk began to play her part as "queen of hearts" in the 
White House, and played through her short life. While very 
young she gained two warm friends, who remained loyal through 
h,er life-time. One was Mr. Buchanan, Secretary of State in 
Mr. Polk's Cabinet, afterwards President, and the other was 
General Harney. Maria was devoted to Mr. Buchanan, and 
often ran away to visit him in his office. One day Mr. Buchanan 
was dining with the President, and Maria was brought to the 
table; when dessert was being served, Mr. Buchanan said, "Well, 
my little pet, "what did you do with that nice bolt of red ribbon 
(legal red tape) I gave you this morning?" "My mamma tied 
me to the bed-post because I runned away." 

Gk?neral Harney was very fond of Maria, and when she was 
about seven years old he bought irom Tom Thumb, when he was 
being exhibited in Washington, one of his coaches, and pre- 
sented it to Maria. It was a beautiful thing, and would hold 
four small children, a driver and a footman. Of course, the lat- 
ter were children also. 



140 The 'Knox Family. 

Hal was a great favorite of the President's. He now has a 
letter written by his father to his mother, who was on a visit to 
her girlhood's home in Lynchburg. In it he says, "t am glad 
you will soon be home^ as Uncle James misses Hal so much. Be 
sure to have Hal bring him some of Grandpa Tabb's tobacco, as 
the last he gave him is about gone." 

Sally was devoted to Mr. Polk, and it was almost impossible 
to iceep her out of his office. Mr. Polk could often be seen 
walking about holding Sally by the hand, and to the first one 
he met he would say, "Won't you please keep Sally out of my 
room." I suppose Sally is the only woman who ever attended 
Cabinet meetings, and on that account acquired her nickname 
of "Curly." 

Colonel Robert J. Walker, Secretary of the Treasury in Mr. 
Polk's Cabinet, was a very bright and lovable man, and his 
friends declared he would find out all the secrets of state, and 
he was called by his intimate friends "Curly." Sally could not 
be kept out of the Cabinet meetings, and was called "Curly." 
Col. Walker did not approve of nicknames, but he always called 
his daughter by the one gained in this manner. After leaving 
the White House, Col. Walker kept house for a few years in 
Washington, then moved to Memphis, Tenn. I forgot to men- 
tion that Maria came very near handing her name down in his- 
tory. While living at the White House, she put a lighted candle 
under the bed. If it had not been discovered in time, the house 
would have been burned. As it was, the room was just a little 
damaged. 

Maria Walker was educated at the Convent of the Visitation, 
Georgetown, D. C, and 9j)cnt the winter of fifty-nine in Wash- 
ington. As a little child she hud often given Mr. Buchanan a 
warm welcome to the White House. Now he, as President, and 
living at the White Hoiisi', returned the complimenr. During 
one of her visits, Mr. •lames Buchanan, nephew and private 
secretary of the President, was showing Miss Maria Walker 
through the Wliito IIoum'; \\v showed her a cradle, and said, 
"Here is your crad]<>," but she replied, "Xo." He said, "Well, 
it belongs to one of Col. Knox Walker's children."* "It was my 



James Knox and Descendants. 141 

sister SallvV."' Col. Walker had ten children, hiu Knox wa?; the 
pi't hunt) (it rhe fold. When ten years ohl he was thrown from 
his ponv and killed. Mrs. Walker never recovered from the 
shock and sorrow. She saw four of her children carried out to 
Elmwood, and then she, too, was laid heside them. Though tlio 
mother of ten children, she was still very young and very beau- 
tiful, not being quite thirty-«ix when she died. 

Mr. Polk thought Mrs. Walker so beautiful that when cele- 
brated artists came to paint his portrait, he would have Mrs. 
Walker sit also. Healy, the celebrated portrait painter, executed 
an excellent portrait of Mrs. Walker. She is sitting in tJie east 
room in the coat of arms chair. Sully also painted an ivory 
miniature. These pictures are prized very • highly by Mrs. 
Walker's children. 

Maria Walker married General Frank Armstrong, and it was 
a coincidence that she who had been such a pet of General Har- 
ney should marry a gentleman, who, when in the United States 
Army, had been a staff officer of General Harney's. When 
General Armstrong married Miss Walker, he was in the Confed- 
erate Army. Mrs. Armstrong died at the age of twenty-seven. 
She had gone to Springfield, Mo., for her health, and died there. 

Sally married in 1866, Major Hampton L. Boon, who had 
been on General A^an Dorn's staff during the war. After the 
war Major Boon was a well-known agent of the Xew York Life 
Insurance Company. He died in Ardmore, Ind. Ter., in 1893, 
and is buried in Carthage, Mo., wdiere his widow resides with 
four children. 

General Armstrong is at present assistant Indian inspector. 
Hal T. Walker resides with his family in Montgomery, Ala. 
Joseph Knox Walker was a colonel in the Confederate Army; 
his death was caused by sickness contracted by exposure in the 
army. 

President and Mrs. Polk are both buried in Nashville, Tenn. 

Of the many people who went in and out of the White House 
during Mr. Polk's term, and called it home, I know of but two 
that are living, Sally Walker Boon and Hall T. Walker. 

(Written by Sallie Walker Boon for the St. Louis Rcpiihllc.) 



CHAPTER VIII. 
Absalom Knox and Descendants. 

ABSALOM^ KNOX, son of John Knox, emigrant, and wife, 
Jean Gracy Knox, married Mary Morrison, lived in 
Eowan county, N. C. Although quite a number of his descen- 
dants still live in North Carolina, the writer has not succeeded 
in finding any one who could give much information relative to 
the life and character of their ancestor, Absalom Knox.* (His 
children were as follows (although it is not known in what order 
they come as to age) : 

1 William^ Knox, who went from North Carolina to Middle 
Tennessee about 180G, and from there to Ohio in 1815. He 
married Margaret Armstrong; died in 1827. 

Issue, 

1 Armstrong* Knox, never married. 

2 Milas* Knox, died single. 

3 Polly* Knox married John Brown ; lived and died in Piqua, 
Ohio. 

Issue. 

1 Mary*^ Brown. 

2 Milas^ Brown. 

3 Henry^ Brown. 

4 James^ Brown. 

4 John* Knox married three times, names not known. 

5 Margaret* Knox married her cousin, Allison Brandon. 

Issue. 

1 Mary^ Brandon married Jackson Fox. 

2 Eliza' Brandon married Manning ; had several children. 

3 Margaret*^ Brandonr married Manning. 

a From the North Carolina Records we learn that he served in the 
Revolution. See official certificate from the Department of the State 
Auditor, Raleigh. N. C, on page — . 



Absalom Knox and Descendants. 143 

C James* Knox married Elizabeth Brown. 

Issue. 
1 Mattie^ Knox married Allison. 

7 Eliza* Knox married Samuel Ross. She was the last of that 
family to be called away; a family whose memory \7i\l last as 
long as there is any one who knew them for all the good traits 
that belong to the human race. So writes her cousin, John 
Kicholson, Polo, Ohio. 

Issue. 

1 A daughter^ married and lives in Atchison, Kan. 

2 Ella' Ross, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. 

3 Fannie^ Ross, 



2 Margaret^ Knox, daughter of Absalom Knox and wife, Mary 
Morrison, married William Simonton, of Statesville, N. C. 

Issue. 

1 Mary* Simonton married a Young. 

2 Absalom* Simonton, Sr., was clerk of court of Iredell 
county; lived and died in Statesville, N. C. His first wife was 
a Miss Davidson, by whom he had one daughter, Mary' Jane 
Simonton, who married Dr. James Hiram Houston, of Union 
Town, Ala. 

Issue. 

1 Lula^ Houston married C. A. Terrell. 

Issue. 

1 Mary" Terrell married Y. Taylor. 

2 Isabelle' Terrell. 

3 Houston^ Terrell. 

2 Belle" Houston married S. J. Anderson. 

Issue. 

1 Mary Inoin Anderson. 

2 James Houston Anderson. 

3 Robert" L. Houston married Miss Toney. He is in business 
in the Custom-house, Mobile, Ala. 



144 The Kxox Family. 

2 Robert^ Simonton. son of Absalom* Simonton, Sr , married 
Eoxami Bogle; died in 1876, without issue. He was a banker 
in Statesville,, X. C. 

3 Absalom^ Simonton, Jr., married Belle Reynolds; had two 
children ; both died young. He was killed at the battle of Seven 
Pines during the civil war. 

Absalom* Simonton, Sr.'s, second wife was Isabella Falls, by 
whom he had a son, Davidson Simonton, who went to Alabama, 
and married three times. 

From Hunter's Sl'etches of Western North Carolina we copy 
the following, relating to tliis Houston family: 

"Capt. James Houston was born in 1747, and was an early and de- 
voted friend of liberty. In tlie battle of Ranisour's Mill, near tbe present 
site of Lincolnton, N. C, he took an active part. During the engagement 
Captain Houston was severely wounded in the thigh, from which he 
never fully recovered. Seeing the man who inflicted the severe and 
painful wound he shot him in the back and killed him as he ran. When 
it was ascertained that Cornwallis had crossed the Catawba river at 
Cowan's Ford, and was approaching with his arm}', the family of Capt. 
Houston conveyed him to tlie big swamp near by, known as 'Purgatory,' 
and there concealed him until the British had marched through the 
country. Capt. James Houston was the father of the late Dr. Joel B. 
Houston, of Catawba, and the grandfather of R. B. B. Houston, Esq., 
who now wears the gold sleeve buttons of his patriotic ancestor, with 
his initials, .J. H., engraved upon them. Dr. J. H. G. Houston, of Ala- 
bama, who married Mary Jane Simonton, is another grandson. Captain 
James Houston died August 2, 1819, in the seventy-third year of his age, 
and is buried in Center Church graveyard." 

3 Zilpha* Simonton, daughter of Margaret Knox and William 
Simonton, of Iredell county, N". C, married first a Torrence; 
second time Eev. Daniel Gould. 

Her second husband. Rev. Gould, was pastor of the old his- 
toric Presbyterian Church in Statesville about 1820 or 1825. 
His sister. Miss Eliza Gould, taught the first high school in 
Statesville, so we have been told. She became the second wife of 
Mr. William Wood. The name of Zilpha Simonton Gould de- 
serves honorable mention in the annals of the Knox family. Her 
son, Robt. S. Gould, of Austin, Texas, says of her, "She was 



Absalom Kxox and Descendants;. 145 

twice left a widow, emigrated with her aged mother and her four 
children to Tuscaloosa, Ala. Her two daughters \Vcre already 
grown to womanhood, and soon married in Alabama. Her sons 
were still quite young — five to eight years old. Her chief object 
in removing was to give these boys the benefit of a collegiate 
education. Settling at Tuscaloosa, where the University of Ala- 
bama was located, she kept a boarding house for manv years, 
doing jnuch of the work herself, and was thus enabled, not only 
to accomplish her purpose as to her own sons; but was also 
enabled afterwards to give the same start in life to the numerous 
children of her two widowed daughters. An earnest, devoted 
Christian herself, she not only succeeded in impressing on all of 
her descendants who came under her care the principles of Chris- 
tianity; but was often influential in doing the same for others, 
not connected by blood. She was widely known in Middle Ala- 
bama as one who lost no opportunity for doing good. Her de- 
scendants are now scattered from Virginia to California, and 
wherever one of them is found they still cherish the memory of 
Zilpha Margaret Gould. Two of her children still survive (this 
July, 1901) : Elizabeth Street, aged eighty-four years, living in 
Galveston, and Robert S. Gould, LL. D., of Austin. Texas, aged 
seventy-four years. Her great-granddaughter, Margaret C. Force, 
speaks of her as a most interesting character. Also says she died 
at her mother's house, in Selma, Ala., though buried in Tusca- 
loosa. The children of Zilpha Simonton by her first husband, 
Torrence, were: 

1 Elizabeth'"' Torrence married John V. Street. 

Issue. 

1 William" Street died in the civil war. 

2 John« Street. 

3 Torrence" Street. 

4 Montfort" Street. 

5 Ella" Street married Dr. C. W. Trueheart. 

6 Robert" Gould Street married Miss Louve ; had six children, 
all dead, except John^ V. Street. 



146 The Knox Family. 

2 Margaret^ Torrence married Ebenezer Matthews, her second 
cousin. 

Issue. 

1 Huffh" Matthews married first Miss Craddock ; second, . 

2 Laura*' Matthews married Dr. John Allison, Statesville, 
K C. 

Issue. 

1 John^ Matthews Allison married Zilpha Force, Denver Col. 

Issue. 
1 John^ Morgan Allison, born April 25, 1901. 

2 Hugh^ Allison. 

3 Maggie' Allison married a Torrence. 

4 Mary'' Allison married Bingham, Mebane, N". C. 



3 Marv*" Elizabeth Matthews married Charles Fairchilds 
Force, Selma, Ala. Mr. Force belonged to an old Washington 
city family. When a mere boy he joined the First Virginia Vol- 
unteers and fought through the Mexican War. After his return 
to Washington he studied medicine at the Columbian College in 
that city; practiced medicine in Washington until the opening 
of the war between the States entered the service; was captain 
of the Fifty-first' Alabama Cavalry; was imprisoned at Johna- 
son's Island, Sandusky Bay, Ohio, for ten months; was ex- 
changed and fought until the end. After the war he met and 
married Mary Matthews in Tuscaloosa, and took her to Selma, 
Ala, Six children were born to them: 

1 Margaret^ Canmont Force; now in the Congressional Lib- 
rary, Washington City. She is much interested in the Knox his- 
toTV, assisted with the investigation in Scotland, also made 
search in the Library for Knox data. 

2 Mary^ Force. 

3 Zilpha'^ Force married John Matthews Ailison, one son. 

4 Laura^ Force (she and Zilpha were twins). 



Absalom Knox and Descendants. 147 

5 Alice" Eiggs Force married, in 1878, Charles J. Uunlap^, of 
a South Carolina family; live in Selma, Ala. 

Issue. 
1 Laura® Force Dunlap. 

G Peter' Force. He, like his father, joined the volunteer 
army when a boy; belonged to Roosevelt's Rough Riders, and 
served in that famous regiment throughout the Spanish Ameri- 
can war. 

Zilpha Simonton, by her marriage to Rev. Daniel Gould, had 
four sons : 

1 Thomas' Gould. 

2 Robert' S. Gould, LL. D. (Austin, Texas); married Serena 
Barns, in 1855. Mr. Gould was one amon^ the first to order a 
copy of the Knox tree while it yra-s j'et comparatively small. His 
children are: 

1 Kate® Gould, who died in childhood. 

2 Robert® Simonton Gould, Jr., married Rose Adam. 

ISSITE. 

1 Serena^ Gould. 

2 John^ Adam Gould. 



3 DanieP Gould, died single. 

4 Ebenezer' Gould, died single. 

(On some copies of the Tree, Daniel and Ebenezer Gould are 
not properly entered. They were sons of Rev. Daniel Gould, and 
not of Robert S. Gould.) 

SECTION II. 

3 Jane^ Knox, daughter of Absalom Knox, Sr., married first 
John Brandon, by whom she had three children. 

Issue. 

1 Absalom* Knox Brandon. 

2 Milas* Brandon. 

3 Elizabeth* Brandon, all three died single, it is thought. 



148 The Kxox Family.- 

We have an extract from John Brandon's will, made in 1801. 
(Found by the clerk of court in the records of Kowan county, 
X. C.) He mentions wife, Jane, and sons, Absalom, and Milas 
Brandon, and daughter Elizabeth Brandon. He appoints his 
brother, Benjamin Brandon, and his wife's brother, John Knox, 
his executors. William Brandon is a witness; so he must have 
lived after John's death, in 1806. 

Jane^* Knox married, second time, Mus'sentine Matihews, of 
Iredell county, N". C. His great-granddaughter. Miss Margaret 
Force, informs us that she is in possession of the sword he used 
in the Revolutionary War. Major Matthews represented Iredell 
county in the Legislature. He was an elder in the Fourth Creek 
Presbyterian Church, Statesville, about 1T80, we learn from 
Foote's Sketches, p. 324. 

Issue. 

1 Ebenezer* Matthews married Margaret Torrence, his cousin. 
The genealogy of this branch has been given on the Zilpha Si- 
monton branch. 

2 Milas* B. Matthews married Nancy Young, December 17, 
1833. (There was a right large family of Youngs. One mar- 
ried Mr. Cic-ero Foard, of South River, another married a Wood, 
and was the motlier of Dr. Burton Wood, of Elmwood, N. C. 
The writer has several interesting letters from Mrs. jSTancy Y. 
Matthews, written in 1891, from Navasota, Texas, by her own 
hand, givino: account of her afflictions, etc. She had not walked 
in thirteen years; the result of a broken limb. She also alludes 
to a camp-meeting at old Third Creek Church that she attended 
in her youthful days. The writer's grandfather and family oc- 
cupying one tent. From Mrs. Matthews' letters we take her to be 
a worthy, good woman. She was a widow, and had been for 
some years. 

Issue. 

1 John^ Young Matt-hews married Ellen M. Elliott; died 
without issue. 

2 Margaret^ Jane Matthews married Dr. Joseph X. Baylor, 
Texas. 



Absat.om Kxox and Descendants. 14<^ 

Issue. 

1 Georgia" Baylor. 

2 Willian/' Baylor. 

3 Nannie'' L. Baylor, dead. 

4 ^farofarot" C. Bavlor married Henrv Abernathv. 

5 Joseph"^ A. Baylor. 

6 Mabel Tearl Baylor. 

7 Mary*^ M. Baylor. 

8 Barbara Ella Bavlor. 



3 Thomas'' ]\Iatthc\vs married ilary D. Burford. 

Issue. 

1 Hattie" C. Matthews. 

2 Weston« B. ^latthews. 

3 John" Y. Matthews. 

4 Thomas" :\ratthews. 



4 William^ Henry Matthews; died when a boy. 

5 Ebenezer^' Torrenee Matthews married, first, Debora M. 
Campbell. 

Issue. 

1 May" Matthews. 

2 Nealy" Hays J^Iatthews. 

3 William" Leonidas Matthews. 

4 Debbie" Campbell Matthews. 

E. T. ]\Iatthews and second wife, Ida Cochran, had one son, 
John" Cochran Matthews. 

6 Mary^ Elizabeth Matthews married George Elliott. 

Issue. 

1 George" Henry Elliott. 

2 Mary" Merle Elliott. 

3 Baylor" Elliott. 

4 Bessie" Young Elliott. 

5 Katie" Meg Elliott, died young. 
G Douglas" Elliott. 



150 The Knox Family. 

7 Milas^ B. Matthews, died when a young man. 

8 Sally^ Katharine Matthews married W. B. Anderson. 

Issue. 

1 Katie^ Anderson. 

2 Vance® Anderson. 

3 Ella* Anderson. 

4 May® Anderson. 

5 Gay® Anderson. 

6 Daniel® Anderson. 

7 Ross' Anderson. 

8 Hugh® Bowden Anderson. 

9 Scott® Anderson. 
10 Vance® Anderson. 

9 DanieP Wood Matthews married Fannie Hanseom. 

Issue. 
1 Walter® Scott Matthews. 

10 Ella' Matthews married Milton C; Pickett. 

Issue. 

1 Milton® M. Pickett. 

2 Milas® Wood Pickett. 

3 Preseott® Pickett. 

Major Mussentine Matthews was a widower when he married 
Jane Knox. His first wife was a daughter of Furgus Sloan. He 
had by that marriage : 

1 Mary Matthews, who married Thomas Allison, the grand- 
father' of T. J. Allison, of Statesville, X. C. One of the daugh- 
ters of Mary Matthews and Thomas Allison married a Cowan, 
and their daughter Ann married Dr. Long. 

2 Betsy Matthews, who married a Locke^ whose daughter, 
Mary Locke, was Dr. John Allison's first wife. 



4 Absalom^ Knox, Jr., son of Absalom Knox, Sr., died single. 

5 Mary^ Knox, daughter of Absalom Knox, Sr., married her 
first cousin, John Knox, son of her father's brother, Joseph 
Knox. To which branch please refer for a record of their family. 



Absalom Knox and Descendants. 151 

SECTION III. 

6 Andrew^ Knox, son of Absalom Knox, Sr., was born 1774. 
He married three times. First wife was Agnes Culbertson, sec- 
ond an Adams, third a Hall. Andrew Knox was buried in Third 
Creek graveyard. 

Issue by First Wife. 

1 Son, Absalom* Knox, who married Jane Johnston. He died 
September 8, 1844. Their children are as follows : 

1 Robert-^ Andrew Knox, bom in Troy, Ohio, July 7, 18:54. 
He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church in Salisbury, X. C, 
married Harriet Bost; died 18 — . 

Issue. 

1 Son, Robert® Knox. He was a soldier in the Cuban War. 
He and mother reside in Newton, N. C, 

2 John^ Marshall Knox, born in North Carolina, June 17, 
1836. He lives in Salisbury, N. C. ; is much interested in the 
history of the Knox family ; was among the first to purchase a 
copy of the Knox tree, when it was yet in its infancy. Assisted 
with the research in the records of Scotland; also contributes 
to the Knox Monument Fund. He is a useful member and lib- 
eral supporter of the Presbyterian Church. He married Kate 
Clement, of Mocksville, N. C. 

Issue. 

1 Bertha* Knox. 

2 Clara* Knox. 

3 Margaret* Knox. 

3 Dovey^ Jane Knox, daughter^of Absalom Knox, Jr., and 

wife, Jane Johnston, was born June 27, 1839, married 

Coit, who died leaving her a widow with four children in early 
life. She resides in Salisbury, N. C. 

Issue. 

1 John* Knox Coit. At this time a Christian worker, one of 
the soul-winners in the mountains of North Carolina. 

2 Mary* Johnsie Coit, a teacher. 



152 The Knox Family. 

3 Laura° Hill Coit, a teacher or secretary in the State Xornial 
College, at Greensboro, IST. C. 

•i Eobert" Coit, now a, student at Davidson College. 



4 SamueP Alexander Knox, born April 28, 1842. Enlisted 
in the Confederate Army in young manhood; was wounded in 
the shoulder on June 3rd, at the battle of Haws Shop, Va. ; 
reached home, and died the 19th of same month; and was laid 
beside his father, in Third Creek graveyard. Aged twenty-two 
years. 

5 William^ Absalom Knox, born November 3, 1844. He mar- 
ried a Miss Sample, had four children , was killed by his cotton 
press, January 22, 1875, aged thirty-one years, in Mecklenburg 
county, where he lies buried. 

Issue. 

1 Carrie® Knox. 

2 Lester*' Sample Knox, near Providence Church. The only 
one of the family now living. 



Children of Andrew' Knox, by his second wife, were : 

1 Milton* Knox. 

2 Agnes* Knox, born in Eowan county, N". C, married Hall 
McCorkle. They removed to Ohio ; died September 10, 1849 : 
buried in Troy, Ohio ; had four children : 

1 James^ Andrew McCorkle married Ellen Smith. 

Issue. 
1 Agnes® McCorkle married Frank Andrews. (Linwood, near 

Issue. 



Cincinnati. Ohic 


1 


1 


Willie^ 


J 

Andrews. 


2 


Jessie^ 


Andrews. 


3 


Robert^ 


Andrews. 


4 


Daisy" 


Andrews. 


5 


Xollio' 


B. Andrews. 


fi 


Frank" 


Andrews, Jr, 


4 


Charlie 


' Andrews. 



Absalom Kxox and Descexdaxts. 153 

2 Ilciirv''' McCorkle married Snrali Jones. Two children, 
names not given. 

3 Callie" McCorkle, daughter of Jame? A. McCorkle, married 
Eev. Dr. Txingland. of Grandville, Ohio; he is synodic evangelist. 

Issue. 

1 Paul" Ringland. 

2 Lvle' Eingland. 

3 Bertha" Ringland. 

4 Rut.h^ Ringland. 

5 James" Ringland. 

4 Bertha« McCorkle. 

5 Etta*^ McCorkle married Harrv Blick: has one child. Chi- 
cago, 111. 

6 Ciiarles*' JifcCorkle married Susan ]\reyers. Address. Hast- 
ings, Xeb. 



2 Elizabeth^ Jane McCorkle married William Lyle. Craw- 
fordsville, Ind. 

3 Margaret^ Emeline McCorkle married Joseph Hunter, 
Piqua, Ohio. 

Issue. 

1 Harry'' Hunter married Ethel Snyder. 

Issue. 

1 Clarence" Hunter. 

2 Edna" Hunter. 

2 Albert" Hunter. 

3 Mary*^ Augusta Hunter married J. A. Buckels. Oklahoma. 

4 James'' Hunter married Minnie Carson. 



SSUE. 

1 Margaret' Hunter. 

2 Lester^ Hunter. 

o Zilpha^' Agnes Hunter. 
G Bessie" Hunter. 
7 Rav" Hunter. 



154 The Knox Family. 

4 Zilpha^ Agnes McCorkle married William 0. Anderson, In- 
dianapolis, Ind. 

Issue. 

1 Horace^ Anderson married Grace Olcott; have one child. 

2 Frank^ Anderson, died. 

3 Margaret" Anderson married Linn D. Hay. 

Issue. 
1 Agnes' Linn Hay. 

4 Emma' Andrew Anderson. 

5 Jessie' Agnes Anderson. 



Andrew^ Knox, by his last wife, who was a Miss Hall, had one 
daughter, Margaret* Knox, who was the second wife of William 
B. Wood, and lived in Eowan county, N. C. (Zilpha Gould, sis- 
ter to Eev. Daniel Gould, was one of William B. Wood's wives, 
probably his last wife. She taught the first high school in States- 
ville.) 

Issue of Margaret Knox and William Wood were : 

1 Mary^ Dorcas Wood married, in 1854, Charles H. McKenzie, 

who was a son of Montfort Stokes McKenzie, and grandson of 

Charles H. McKenzie, emigrant from Scotland. She died in 

February, 1863, and there survive as children of this marriage: 

1 Hon. James' H. McKenzie, of Salisbury, X. C, who mar- 
ried Watson. Their children are : 

1 Charlie" McKenzie. 

2 Locke^ McKenzie. 

3 Mary'' Wood McKenzie. 

4 Whitehead" McKenzie. 

2 Margaret' McKenzie married a Sumner, and reside in Lin- 
colnton, X. C. 

(After the death of Mary D. Wood McKenzie, in 1863, Mr. 
McKenzie married, in I860, Miss Ellen Sumner, of Kowan 
county. The children of this marriage are: 



Absalom Knox and Descendants. 155 

1 Rev. Bonjamin S. McKenzie, of Macon, Ga. 

2 Dr. W. W. McKenzie, Salisbury, N. C. 

3 Ernest B. McKenzie, Richmond, Va. 

4 Thomas J. McKenzie. 

5 Laura Edith McKenzie. 

6 Julian A. McKenzie. 



2 Margaret^ Laura Wood married Henderson. 

Issue. 
1 Sallie® Henderson married Marshall Miller, Statesville, 
N. C. 

Issue. 

1 Mary^ Miller. 

2 Samuer Miller. 

3 Joseph^ Miller. 

4 Benjamin^ Miller. 

5 Allen^ Miller. 

•2 Jinnie' Henderson married J. Hartnes, Statesville, N. C. 
Mr. Henderson is clerk of court. They have several children. 

1 Elva^ Hartness Henderson. 

2 William^ Henderson. 

3 Lizzie^ Henderson. 

4 Linda^ Henderson. 

5 Charles^ Henderson. 

6 Luke^ Henderson. 

7. Rebecca' Hartness Henderson. 

3 Scott^ Wood married, first, a Miss Kerr; second time 
Widow Stancil. One son, Walter® Wood, survives of first mar- 
riage, and two sons by second marriage : 

1 Charley® Ross Wood married Carson. 

2 Marshall® Wood. 



4 Rev. William^ A. Wood, born in Rowan county, N. 0. 
November 28, 1831. Married Nolle Costin, daughter of Mr. 



loG The Kxox Family. 

Miles Costin, of Wilmington. X. C. (Another daughter married 
Col. Martin, of Davidson College. They were most excellent 
ladies.) 

See Section YI. of this chapter for memorial sketch of Eev. 
William Wood. Rev. William Wood and wife had children as 
follows : 

1 Kate® Knox Wood married Dr. White, Statesville, X. C. 

Issue. 

1 William^ Anthony White. 

2 Leonard" White. 

2 James'' Hall Wood married Blanche Harrill. 

Issue. 

1 William' Harrill Wood. 

2 James^ Hall Wood. 

3 Albert^ Wood. 

3 Belle*' Martin Wood married Frank L. Page. 

Issue, 
1 Costin' Wood Page. 

4 Mariana" Wood married Frank L. Fithian; reside in Had- 
den field. X. J. 

Issue. 
1 Xaomi^ Fithian 

o Caroline® Simonton Wood married D. A. Miller, Statesville, 
N. C. 

G Gertrude® Wood. 

7 Costin Wood married Gertrude Eobbins, daughter of Major 
Bobbins, of Statesville, X. C. 



5 James^ H. Wood was a colonel in the Fourth Xorth Carolina 
Regulars, C. S. A. ; killed at Snicker's Gap. 




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7 Benjamin^ Knox, ?oii of Absalom Knox, Sr., maiTiod Sarah 
Hall, of the old B<^thanv Hall families. Thev removed from 
North Carolina to Hlinois; had three children: 

1 Thomas* Knox. 

2 Absalom* Knox. 

3 Mary* Knox. 

I have not succeeded in finding or tracing this branch. Not in- 
formed to what part of Hlinois they went. 

SECTION IV. 

8 Sarah^ Knox, daughter of Absalom Knox,.Sr., married Wil- 
liam Barr, son of one John Barr, who settled in the Back Creek 
neighborhood, Eowan county. N. C, and gave the land on which 
the church stands. John Barr was one of the first bench of 
elders in Back Creek Church. His wife was Mary King; they 
raised a large family of children. A little book, The Life of 
John Barr, is to be found in some of the old church libraries. 
Any one desiring to learn more about the Barr ancestors might 
refer to Miss Lou Graham, Statesville, N. C, who has a Barr 
"tree" that goes back to the father of said John Barr. 

Children of Sarah Knox and William Barr are: 
1 Eev. Absalom* Knox Barr married Abia F. Wormer, in 
Pennsylvania. 

Issue. 

1 Lawrence' Barr married Euth Williams; live in Kenton, 0. 

Issue. 

1 John^ Barr, Colorado Springs, Col. 

2 Lawrence® Barr. 

3 Marie'' Barr. 



2 Sarah^ L. Barr married James Beach, dead. 

3 Mary' Barr married Eev. L. L. Uhl, missionary lO India, of 
the Lutheran Church; had one daughter: 

Grace* Barr Uhl, graduated at the University of Boston in 



158 The Knox Family. 

1900. In May, 1904, she received the degree of "J. B." in the 
Boston University Law School. Mrs. Uhl and daughter, Grace 
Barr, made a visit to friends in North Carolina some years ago ; 
also visited the old graveyard at Back Creek Church, where some 
of their ancestors were buried. Miss Uhl recently sent in a con- 
tribution to the Knox Monument fund from that branch.'' 
4 John^ Scudder Barr married Ella Amsden. 



2 Mary* Barr, daughter of Sarah Knox and William Barr, 
married Porter Graham, of Rowan county, N. C. 

Issue, 
1 Marietta^ Graham married William Frank Hall. 

Issue. 

1 Mar}® Eliza Hall, died in infancy. 

2 Walter® Graham Hall, drowned in Third Creek, near Files* 
Mill when a boy. 

3 William® F. Hall, a druggist in Statesville, X. C, a deacon 
in the Presbyterian Church; married Pauline Helper, of David- 
son College. 

Issue. 

1 William^ Franklin Hall, Jr. 

2 Ruth^ Marie Hall. 

4 Maggie® Louise Hall. 

5 Richard® Anderson Hall, died March, 1901. 

6 Marietta® Hall, died. 

7 James® Henry Hall married Celeste Anderson. In the drug 
business with his brother, William F. 



2 Emeline^ Graham married a Fleming. 

Issue. 
1 Andrew® Fleming married Laura Rosebro. 

b For sketch of this branch se^ Section VII., this chapter. 



Absalom Knox and Descendants. 159 

Issue. 

1 Emma" Fleming. 

2 Ealpli^ Fleming. 

3 Mary" Fleming. 

4 Xettie' Fleming. 

5 Charlie" Fleming. 

3 Sarah° Graham married John Morgan. 

Issue. 

1 ]Marv'' Barr Morgan. 

2 Annie" Morgan married George A. Banner, Banner Elk, 
X. C. 

Issue. 

1 Elizabeth' Graham Banner, died. 

2 John' Paul Banner. 

3 Virginia" Banner. 



4 Louise^ Graham, Statesville, N. C. 



3 Margaret* Barr married Robert Stuart, M. D., went to Mis- 
sissippi; had two daughters: Eugenia and Cordelia. 

1 Eugenia^ Stuart married Dr. 0. P. Houston, of Back Creek, 
Rowan county, where they lived until after his death, when the 
family moved to Morrisville, X. C. 

Issue. 

1 Vance* Houston married Belle Kimball. 

Issue. 
1 Benjamin^ Stuart Houston. 

2 James*' Houston married Xellie Crawford. 

Issue. 

1 Linda" Houston. 

2 Pinkney'^ Houston. 

3 Vanoe^ Houston. 

3 Maggie" Houston married W. W. Rankin ; reside in Moores- 
ville, X. C. 



160 Tjie Knox Family. 

Issue. 

1 Frod" W. Eankin. 

2 John' Houston Rankin. 

3 Thomas' La Fayette Rankin, dead. 

4 Margaret^ Engene Rankin. 

5 Elizabeth^ Octavia Rankin. 

6 Watson" Wharton Rankin. 

4 Estelle'^ Houston married Clarence Hawthorn. 

Issue. 

1 Pauline^ Hawthorn. 

2 Eloise^ Hawthorn. 

3 Clarence" Eugene Hawthorn. 

4 Estelle^ Hope Hawthorn. 

5 John® Barr Houston married Mamie Harbin. 

Issue. 
1 John^ Barr Houston, Jr. 



2 Cordelia^ Stuart married Rev. William L. Lowrance, Oak 
Cliff, Texas. Rev. Lowrance was a colonel in the Confederate 
Army ; was in college at Davidson, N. C, when the war broke 
out ; studied theology after the war. 

Issue. 
1 Rev.*' Eugene Lowrance, born December, 1868; married 
Alene A. Swan. 

Issue. 

1 Henry^ Lee LoT\Tance. 

3 William® X. Lowrance, born December, 1870; married 
Maude Barnett. 

3 Fred® Lowrance, born 1872. 

4 Lois® Lowrance, born 1875; married Dr. C. C. Berry, Dal- 
las, Texas. 



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Issue. 



1 Margaret^ Bcrrv. 
5 Stuart" Lowrance, born 1880. 



4 Jane* Barr, daughter of Sarah Knox and W^'illiam Barr, 
married Finley McCorklc, an elder in Back Creek Church. 

Issue. 

1 Sarah^ McCorkle married Calvin Scott, Charlotte, N. C. 

Issue. 

1 John® M. Scott, a druggist in Charlotte, N.^ C, married 
Bleeker Springs. 

Issue. 
1 Julia^ Baxter Scott. 

2 Loula*' Scott, died. 

3 Lillie® Scott married Edwin Cansler, a lawyer. 

Issue. 

1 Edwin^ Cansler. 

2 John^ Scott Cansler. 

3 Sarah^ Cansler. 

4 Walter® Scott. 

Mary® Lizzie Scott married Eev. W. W. Akers, Memphis, 
• Tenn. 

2 Cordelia^ McCorkle married Martin Barringer, of Charlotte, 
N. C. 

Issue. 

1 Carrie® McC. Barringer married Espy Brevard Watts, a 
wholesale grocery man, Statesville, N. C. 

Issue. 

1 Carrie^ May Watts. 

2 Cordelia^ Watts. 

2 William® M. Barringer married Daisy Potts. 



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Issue. 

1 John" Martin Barringer. 

2 Ada" Bell Barringer. 

3 William^ M. Barringer, Jr. 



5 Lucilla* Barr married John Nesbit. To Mississippi. 

Issue. 

1 William'^ Alexander Nesbit married Chat Dunn. 

2 James'' Nesbit married Lizzie Lowry. 

3 Eugene^ Nesbit married Susie Thomas. 

4 MelviP Nesbit, died. 

5 Elihu^ King Nesbit. 

G \lice' Ophelia Nesbit married Ben Frank Clark. 
7 Lee" Graham Nesbit. 



G Kate* Barr married John Foster; lived in Mississippi. 

Issue. 

1 Lee^ Barr Foster married Kate Kabell. 

2 Evander'^ Calvin Foster married Aslee McCloud. 

3 Florence^ Foster married Eev. William Frierson, 

4 John"' Cowan Foster. 

SECTION V. 

9 John^ Knox, son of Absalom Knox, Sr., married a Miss Gil- 
lespie; lived in Rowan county, N. C. 

Issue. 

1 James* Gillespie Knox married, first, Euphemia Stuart; 
second time a Miss Burke; had' one daughter by first wife: 

Euphemia^ S. Knox, "Born August, 1825, shortly before her 
mother's death. She married Dr. R. Henderson. To Tennessee. 

Issue. 
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Issue. 

1 Myrtle' Eoc. 

2 Elmer" Roe, died. 

3 Clarence' Roe. 

4 Burrow' Roe, died. 

5 Rupert' Roe. 

6 Robbie^ Roe. 

2 Rev." Giles A. Henderson married Mary McClelland. 

Issue. 

1 Eupliie' Henderson. '' 

2 Everett' Henderson. 

3 Allison'^ Henderson. 

4 Daisy'' Henderson, died. 

5 Mamie" Henderson. 

G Maggie' Henderson, died. 

7 Lillian' Henderson. 

8 Williamson' Henderson. 

9 Herbert' Penderson. 

3 Lillie*' Henderson married Mitchell Bogle. 

Issue. 

1 Clyde Bogle. 

2 Euphie Bogle. 

3 Edwin Bogle, died. 

4 Finis" K. Henderson married Marie Kyle. 



James Gillespie Knox, by second wife, had five children: 
1 John'' G. Knox, of Dessa, Mo., married . 



Issue. 



1 Walter" Knox. 

2 John" Knox. 

3 Lillie" R. Knox. 

4 Mattie" A. Knox. 

5 Mvrtle" L. Knox. 



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6 Charlie'* Knox. 

7 Earle® Knox. 

8 Gertie® Knox. 

9 Hugh® G. Knox. 

2 Henry^ Knox. 

3 Eliza^ Knox married Abel Cowan. 

Issue. 

1 Modie** Cowan. 

2 Maggie® Cowan. 

3 Alice® Cowan. 

4 Lula® Cowan. 

4 Alice^ Knox married John Morgan. 

Issue. 
1 Phidora® Morgan. 

5 Ida^ Knox. 



2 Mary* Knox married Abel Graham, Rowan county, N. C. 

Issue. 
1 Zilpha' Graham married Thomas Maxwell, died. 

Issue. 

1 Mary® Maxwell married Click; had several children. 

2 Lou® Maxwell married . 



2 John^ K. Graham married Miss Burkhead. 

Issue. 

1 Ida® Graham, died. 

2 William® Graham. 

3 \Yhit® Graham married Fannie Dunham. 

Issue. 

1 Ida^ Lee Graham. 

2 Emma^ Knox -Graham. 

3 Annie^ Pauline Graham. 

4 Mary^ Blanche Graham. 

4 Ella® Graham. 



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3 ]ilargaret^ Graham married Click. 

ISSUK. 

1 Mary*' Click married Kimljall. 

2 Graham" Click. 

3 Muggie" Click. 

4 Henry« Click. 

5 Ella«" Click. 

4 Dwite"' Graham, died in 1848, aged twenty-three. 



3 Jane* Knox married, first a Potts; second time a Ramsay. 
The father of Dr. J. G. Eamsay, of Rowan county, ^. C. 

Issue by First Husband. 

1 John^ Potts married Lou Brown. 

2 Jane^ Ann Potts married Brown. 

Issue. 
1 Annie*^ Brown married Scripture. One child : 
Lilian' Scripture. 



Jane Knox, by second marriage, had one daughter: 
Calista^ Ramsay. 

My uncle, the Rev. Knox, the originator of our Knox Tree, 
writes me that this Jane Knox was one of his special favorites 
among the Knox kin. She was some older than he, and when he 
was an A B C boy in school she kept a vigilant guardianship over 
him, and shared with him day after day her basket of fine big 
mellow apples at the spring; at times keeping him with her on 
the girls' side of the school-house. 

(It is wonderful what a deep and lasting impression is made 
on the minds of children by special acts of kindness.) 

4 Lydia* Knox married Greenberry Waddell (some relation to 
Rev. John Waddell, of Alabama.) 

Issue. 
1 Jane° E. Waddell married Jesse D. Click. 



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Issue. 

1 William^ W. Click married Belle Clcndenin. 

2 Belle® V. Click married William Clendenin. 

Issue. 

1 Grace'' Clendenin. 

2 John'' A. Clendenin. 

3 Jesse'' C. Clendenin. 

4 William'' Clendenin. 

5 Ina^ B. Clendenin. 

3 Jane« D. Click. 

4 Annie® Click. 

5 John« A. Click. 



2 Isabella^ W. Waddell, died. 

3 John^ A. Waddell, died. 

4 William^ H. Waddell, died. 

5 James^ A. Waddell, died. 

6 Sarah.^ G. Waddell married Dr. Alfred W. Wiseman, Jeru- 
salem, N. C, 

Issue. 

1 Alma® Wiseman. 

2 John® W. Wiseman, died. 

SECTION VI. 

Kev. William Andrew Wood was a native of Third Creek con- 
gregation, in Rowan county, N. C. ; was born Xovcmber 28, 
1831. His parents were of that sturdy Scotch-Irish stock that 
came from Ireland by way of Pennsylvania, and settled in Xorth 
Carolina about the middle of the eighteenth century. His father, 
William B. Wood, was one of the substantial farmers of Rowan 
county, and was a ruling elder in Third Creek Presb3"terian 
Church. 

Dr. Wood's mother, Margaret Knox, was a lady of piety and 
refinement, but of a delicate physical constitution, which was 




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Absalom Kxox axd Descendants. H>7 

transmitted to her son, Dr. Wood. His grandmother was a Hall, 
a member of the family that gave to the clnirch the eininent 
Eev. James Hall, D. D., of Revolutionary fame. In his youth, 
the subject of this sketch was for some time a pupil in the school 
of that celebrated teacher, Mr. Peter Stuart Xey, the mysterious 
Frenchman, who is believed by many to have been the celebrated 
Marshal Xey, Napoleon's favorite general. Later he Mas a pupil 
of j\Ir. Hugh R. Hall, at Bethany Church, which school had a 
wide reputation in Rowan and Iredell counties, about the middle 
of the nineteenth century. 

He entered Davidson College in 1848, when only seventeen 
years of age, graduated in 1852 ; was received under tlie care of 
Concord Presbytery, as a candidate for the gospel ministry, in 
May, 1854. 

After studying theology under such teachers as Dr. Charles 
Hodge, Dr. Alexander McGill, at Princeton, and Dr. James 
Thornwell, of Columbia, Mr. Wood spent the closing year of his 
preparation in Edinburgh, Scotland. 

He was licensed in June, 1857, by Concord Presb}i:ery. His 
first charge was Bethany, Tabor and Fifth Creek Churches, 
where he was ordained and installed in 1859. A year or two 
later he was dismissed to Orange Presbytery, and became pastor 
of the church of Washington, N". C, in 1861. He served as 
chaplain of the Fourth Regiment of North Carolina troops, in 
the Confederate States Army, the regiment in which his brother, 
James Wood, was lieutenant-colonel. In 1861, Dr. Wood was 
married to Miss Margaret Naomi Costin, of Wilmington, N. C, 
who died in 1889. 

He served for many wars as a trustee of Davidson College. 
The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him in 18T9 by Hamp- 
deu-Sidney College, Virginia. 

From 1865 to 1869 Mr. Wood resided at his old home in 
Rowan county, and preached at Third Creek and other churches. 
In 1869 he was called to the church of Statesville, N. C, where 
for more than thirty years he labored most faithfvrlly and ac- 
ceptably, enjoying the confidence and affection of the entire 
community. The thirtieth anniversary of his pastorate was cele- 



168 The Knox Family. 

brated with appropriate exercises — all denominations cooperat- 
ing in testifying to his integrity and faithfulness. The young 
men of his congregation presenting him a handsome gold watch. 
A few months later he was attacked by disease, and died April 2, 
1900. His body was laid away in Oakwood Cemetery, States- 
ville, X. C. 

A handsome granite monument has been erected to iiis memory 
on the Presbyterian Church lot; also a memorial window placed 
in the rear of the pulpit. 

The data for the above was gathered mainly from a memorial 
sketch of Rev. William A. Wood, D. D., prepared by Eev. J. 
Eumple, by order of Concord Presbytery. 

SE^CTIOX YII. 

BitiEF Account of Rev. and Mrs. A. K. Barr and their 

Children. 

Rev. Absalom Knox Barr was born in Back Creek (?), Rowan 
county, X. C, in October, 1806. He was the only son and eldest 
child of William Barr and Sarah Knox, and had five sisters, all 
of whom grew up and were married. In his name were united 
his ancestral names, Absalom which was a favorite in the Barr 
family for generations, and Knox, the great stem name. He 
graduated at the University of Xorth Carolina at Chapel Hill in 
18"i7, and studied theology in *Auburn Seminary, at Auburn, 
X. Y. After his ordination he was successively pastor of Pres- 
byterian congregations in North Carolina, New York and Ohio. 
In Xorth Carolina he had charge of the Philadelphia Church, 
Mecklenburg county, N. C. He was residing at Springfield, 
Ohio, at the time of his death, which occurred in his fifty-third 
year, on June 4, 1859. 

On July 4, 1839. Rev. Mr. Barr married — 

Miss Abia Foote Wormer, of Lock, Cayuga county, X. Y., who 
had been a member of the Congregational Chu?ch in which her 
father was a deacon. After their removal to Springfield, Ohio, 
their residence was at 232 West High Street, and their church 




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home was with the First Presbyterian congregation. ^loro than 
a usual mother's care devolved upon iier when she was left a 
widow with four fatherless children to look after and train for 
life. But with her devotion for her family, both as wife and 
mother, she was ready for the emergency, and her children were 
most tenderly and carefully nurtured. The lives of those chil- 
dren have shown both how well qualified she was for the respon- 
sibility and how lovingly she has discharged that duty. Old 
friends and neighbors, contemporaries of her earlier years, spoke 
with appreciation and esteem of the tireless energy and hos- 
pitable spirit of the minister's wife. Her later years were filled 
with the peace and the serenity which comes to a Christtan life 
whose work has been well done. There was a charm of beauty 
through her whole life manifested in a quickness of thought and 
a brightness of disposition. She passed away from this life at 
Springfield, on March 5, 1877, in her sixtieth year. 

The family of Eev. A. K. Barr consisted of four daughters and 
two sons. 

Mrs. Sarah B. Beach (Sarah Lagratia Barr), the eldest of 
these children, was born in Starkey, Yates county, N. Y. ; lived 
later in Springfield, Ohio, until her marriage with Mr. James 
Beach, January 14, 1375, after which time she resided in Du- 
buque, Iowa, until her death, which occurred in her forty-eighth 
year, in 1887. j\Ir. Beach settled in Iowa from New England, 
developing a large manufacturing interest, filling positions of 
importance and trust in his adopted city, and now lives to 
enjoy the fruit of his labors. Mrs. Sadie Beach had won a 
golden name, in her Springfield home, by her qualities of head 
and heart, and by her devotion to her widowed mother and 
fatherless brothers and sisters. Her life in Dubuque, Iowa, was 
one of consecrated service and leadership in woman's work in the 
Congregational Church, her influence extending far out beyond 
her own home and city. There were by this marriage no children 
but three step-children to whom she was much endeared. 

Lawrence Wormer Barr, the elder son, was lx)rn in Penyan. 
Yates county. X. Y. He married ^fiss Ruth Williams, of Ken- 
ton. Ohio, in 1868, and was l^ereft of her companionship in 1900. 



ITO The Knox Family. 

SIk' was Ijorn in Logan county, Ohio, and was brought up in the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Barr early became interested 
in the book trade, and set up business for himself in Kenton, 
Ohio. By a gradual and successful extension of this trade into 
other branches of trade, he has become a business man of long 
standing and fine reputation, one of the best known and most 
honored of Kenton's citizens. Well maintaining the good name 
of his forefathers and his church, he has l>een and continues to 
be both a staunch member and an office bearer in the Kenton 
Presbyterjan Church, a man of marked and conscieniious faith- 
fulness both in business and in domestic life. His elder son, 
John W. Barr, is at present in business in Colorado; his younger 
son, Lawrence S., is joined with him in the book store; and his 
daughter, Dora Marie, is in charge of her father's home. 

Mrs. Mary B. Uhl (Mary A. Barr) was l>orn at Savannah, 
Ohio, and received her education there and in Springrield, Ohio. 
She married Eev. L. L. Uhl in the autumn of 1872, spent nearly 
thirteen years on a missionary service to India, au'd now lives in 
Boston, Mass. Dr. Fhl is a graduate of Wittenberg College and 
Seminary, Springfield, Ohio, a post-graduate of Johns Hopkins 
University, Baltimore, Md., and a missionary in the India field 
of the General Synod, Lutheran Church, in the work of wiiich 
field he has had part since 1873. When Mrs. Mary B. Uhl was 
yet a child, the aged missionary, Dr. John Scudder, on the occa- 
sion of his visit to her home, laid his hand on her head with the 
wish that she might be made a missionary. Her life in Spring- 
field was modest and beautiful. In March, 1873, she arrived at 
Guntur, India, where she opened the first schools for girls of the 
upper classes and the first Zenana work for the same classes, and 
carried on both forms of mission work for many years. Her 
gentleness and perseverence won her great respect in that coun- 
try, which was testified to in many ways. She was an untiring 
worker among the Telugu Hindus, and aided her husband in the 
.\nglo-Vernacular School by visiting the young men students in 
their homes. Grace Barr I^hl, her daughter, was born in Gun- 
tur, India, has had an experience of school life in many places, 
and has graduated from the College of Liberal Arts of Boston 
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Harriet Xewcll was removed from the family by death in «.arly 
childliood, previous to the residence of the family in Springfield, 
Ohio. 

John Sciuhkr Barr was born in Greenfield, Ohio, and in the 
year 1876 married Miss Ella Amsden, of Dubuque, Iowa, iliss 
Amsden was of staunch Congregational origin from Xew Eng- 
land, and her native home was Belvidere. 111. Like his brother 
Lawrence, Mr. John Barr had a bent for the lxK)k line, and car- 
ried on his business with enterprise in Springfield, Ohio. Here 
he also early became an office bearer in the First Presbyterian 
Church, and was on his way to great usefulness when failing 
health resulted in his death at ]\[innoapolis, ]\Iinn., on September 
6, 1892, in his forty-fifth year. A Springfield paper, in its no- 
tice of his death, fittingly said, "Mr. Barr was one of Spring- 
field's most honored and respected citizens." Mrs. John S. Barr 
now resides with her family in Los Angeles, Cal. Their son, 
Albert Amsden Barr, died at the early age of nine. Their 
daughters, Alice and Pauline, are being educated in the schools 
of the West. 

Virginia Loretta, the youngest of the family, died in Spring- 
field, Ohio, in 1857, in her second year. 

The Barr family burial ground lies in the beautiful Ferncliff 
Cemetery, Springfield, Ohio, and there rest the remains of Rev. 
A. K. Barr, Mrs. A. F. Barr, little "Jennie," Mr. John S. Barr, 
and Albert A. Barr. 

The above sketch was sent in after the genealogy of that branch had 
been written up, and pages numbered, consequently it occupies a separate 
section. — The Author. 



CHAPTER IX: 
John- Knox, Jn., and Descendants. 

JOHX- KXOX, JR., or second, son of John^ Knox, emigrant, 
and wife, Jean Gracy Knox, lived in Rowan county, X. C. 
He served in the Revolutionary War, as did most, if not all of his 
brothers. Some of his granddaughters (the writer's mother and 
aunts) tell us that he was with General Davidson in the fight 
crossing the Catawba River, not over twenty-five miles from his 
home, where General Davidson was killed. He had charge of a 
commissary wagon, and it is said that when fleeing from the 
British he lost a clevis pin from his wagon, and in great haste 
snatched a bridle from one of the rear horses, tied it in its 
place and fled on. We have no further record of his service in 
the war.* He must have been married, and had several children 
before the war. His son, George, the writer's grandfather, was 
some four or five years old at the time the troops crossed the 
Catawba River. It is taken for granted that he was a Presby- 
terian. The old records of the church, Thyatira, where he was 
buried, were burned, since his day. He married Hannah Reid, 
and raised a family of eight children : five girls and three boys. 
He died in 1802, and was laid to rest in Thyatira grave3"ard, near 
by the grave of his parents. His wife died in 1793. The names 
of their children are as follows (we cannot give djites of birth, or 
the order in which thev come, as the old family Bible containinff 
tlie record was burned) : 

Issue. 

1 Mary' Knox, daughter of John- Knox, Jr., and wife, Han- 
nah Reid, was born in Rowan county, X. C. ; have not the exact 
date of her birth, but it is thought to have been early in the 
1760's. In 1790, February 6th, she married Benjamin Brandon, 



a See official certificate from the Department of the State Auditor. 
Raleiijh. N. C. on \y.\sce 3"). 



JoJix Knox% Jh., and Dksci;^ ';ants. l";} 

who was born in 1759. He was a soldier in tlie Kevolution. For 
a record of his life and military service, also copy of his father's 
will, and other facts about the Brandons see Section III. of this 
chapter. In 1804. She removed with her husliand ',o Tennes- 
see, and in 1808 from there to Miami county. Ohio, where she 
died about 1850, at an extreme age. 

Mr. S. B. Judah, of Vincennes, Ind. (a grandson of Arm- 
strong Brandon, her brother-in-law), says of her, "She was a 
most excellent woman, and one whose memory is still bright 
with us. She raised my grandfather Brandon, who was deprived 
of both of his parents at an early age, and to him she was indeed 
a mother." Also says, "We have some of the work of her hands 
in our possession. It is a folding pocket-book for carrying 
papers. The sides are covered with embroidery, and the ends are 
silk. She made this and presented it to our grandfather Arm- 
strong Brandon. It is still in good preservation, and must be 
near one hundred years old. It is a valued relic."' 

The writer has, as a mantel ornament, an old gourd, which 
had been presented to our grandmother Knox by this Mary (or 
Polly) Knox Brandon, her sister-in-law, just before leaving 
North Carolina. It was used in the family for a long Hme as a 
spice box. After learning its history we had a friend to paint 
it ; lovely joses adorn one side, and it is now used a^ a flower 
vase. It is almost a globe in shape, only a lit'tle flattened in the 
bottom. It too must be about a century old. 

Mary Knox Brandon was a pensioner, after the death of her 
husband, in 1837, by virtue of his service in the army. 

The children of Mary Knox and Benjamin Brandon were five 
sons and three daughters, as follows: 

1 Jesse* Brandon, eldest son of Mary Knox and Benjamin 
Brandon, never married. He was a printer by trade. Between 
1816 and 1823 he and Armstrong Brandon published the In- 
diana Gazette, one of the earliest m^wspapers in the Srate. His 
last days were spent in Nashville, Brown county, Ind.^ where he 
died and was buried in 18(i5. 

2 Benjamin* Knox Brandon, son of Benjamin and Polly Knox 
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174 The Knox Family. 

1792 and 1796. He was named for his father and mother. In 
1808 he removed with his parents to Ohio, and settled near 
Piqua. B. K. Brandon, when twenty-one years old, bought a 
drove of horses and took them to North Carolina to sell, remain- 
ing among his relatives there during the winter. He served as 
county surveyor in Shelby county from 1831 to 1837. Later 
served as county treasurer. At the inception of the Dayton and 
Michigan Railway (now the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton) 
like many others he put his all into the stock, with the result that 
he lost his farm and moved to Iowa in 1855, and died there two 
years later. His first wife's name was Euth Green Worley. 
They had nine sons. Two were twins, Joshua and Gideon. And 
two sons died on the same day two thousand miles apart — one in 
iDhio and one in California, with same disease, flux. 

B. K. Brandon, remained single after the death of his first 
wife in 1843, until 1849, when he married Mary J. McKown 
(who had one daughter by her first husband, viz., Maggie Mc- 
Kown). There were no children by the second marriage. 

He died in Warren county, Iowa, June 12, 1857. The children 
of Benjamin K. Brandon and first wife, Ruth G. Worley, 
were : 

1 John^ W. Brandon, born Xovember 17, 1824, in Ohio; died 
September 12, 1850, in California. 

2 Jesse^ Brandon, second son of Benjamin K. Brandon, was 
born in Shelby county, Ohio, June 16, 1826. In the sketch or 
family record sent us we find the following description of the 
school-house in which he received his elementary education. It 
was built of round logs covered with boards, the fireplace in one 
end five feet long; for seats had what was called puncheon, 
which was the body of trees split and hewed, and round legs 
driven into auger holes, and cut off the right length to sit on. 
The writing desk was made by boring augur holes in the logs of 
the house, and driving wooden pins in and laying a board some 
t-wentv inches wide on them the full length of the house. For 
light a log was cut out the whole length on both sides of the 
house, and for glass they greased white paper and pasted over 
where the losf had been cut out. 



Joiix Kxox^ Jr., and Descexdaxts. 175 

He afterwards went two quarters in a frame school-house. 
In March, 1844, Jesse Brandon went to Bloomington, Ind., to 
learn the printer's trade. His fathor brought him as far as 
Riclimond on horseback. Here he had his first ride in a mail 
stage coach. Tiie stage from Eichmond to Indianapolis was a 
common crockery ware crate fastened to the front wheels of the 
wagon; four horses attached; a high seat fixed upon the crate 
for the driver. The mail was put in the crate, as was also the 
passenger. It took two days and one night from Richmond to 
Indianapolis, sixty miles. From Crockett Hills fifteen miles out 
from Broomingtou, there were only four houses. Here he was 
to learn the printer's trade with his Uncle Jesse Brandon, brother 
to B. K. Brandon, for whom he was named. In Xovember, 1844, 
he went to Shelby county, Ohio, to school. The following March 
to Covington, and learned the harness trade. In 1850 he came 
to Martinsville, Ind., where he worked at his trade. May 6, 1852, 
he married Eebecca E. Welty, daughter of Jacob Welty, of 
Adams county. Pa. In March, 1863, he started to California 
with the Frink and Alsip party, who had four wagons with oxen 
and three hundred head of cattle. He says, "We saw the ele- 
phant from tip to tail before we reached Council Bluffs, Iowa." 
He reached Sacramento City, Cal., October 19, 1853, and en- 
gaged in mining and the dairy business. In March, 1855, as he 
was going up a mountain, he passed through a cloud, where 
al)ove it he saw the prettiest scene in his life. The sun was shin- 
ing, and the cloud was one sheet of water, reaching to the ocean, 
very smooth, not a ripple on it. He left Sacramento for Indiana, 
October 19, 1857; arrived in Martinsville, in November, 1857; 
when his eldest daughter saw him for the first time, and remem- 
bers it to this day. In 18G6 he moved to Warren county, but re- 
turned to Martinsville in the year, 1869, where he died April 1, 
1899; was buried from tlie Cumt)erland Presbyterian Church, 
in Southern Park Cemetery. Mr. Brandon was a man highly 
esteemed as a neighbor and a citizen, was always jovial, even 
when under affliction. He was constant and successful in busi- 
ness, in spite of the fact that he was almost totally deaf for many 
years. He was much interested in the historv of the Knox and 



176 The Knox Family. 

Brandon families; bought a copy of the Knox Tree in 1897. 
Of his eight children four preceeded him to the grave. 

Issue. 
1 Mary*' Ella Brandon, born 3Iay 3, 1853, Martinsville, Ind., 
inarried John Bain. 

Issue. 

1 Jessie^ C. Bain, born 1876; married James EoUa Mossier. 

2 James" McDonald Bain, born 1878. 

3 Myrtle' Vivian Bain, born 1880. 

4 Florence'^ Enby Bain, born 1883. 

5 Mary" Grace Bain, born 1885. 

6 Adelia" Rebecca Bain, born 1888. 

7 Ben" Brandon Bain, born 1890. 

8 Robert' Walker Bain, born 1893. 

9 Claude^ Bain, born 1896. 10 Cora^ Bain, born 1896, twins. 



2 Adelia" Anna Brandon, born August, 1858; died 1864. 

3 Benjamin" Knox Brandon, born February 20, 1861; died 
1866. 

4 Louisa" Kate Brandon, born February 7, 1865; died 1865. 

5 Jacob® Walter Brandon, born February 19, 1866, 

6 Jesse" Edwin Brandon, born November 18, 1868. 

7 Claude" Worlcy Brandon, born March 26, 1871. 

8 Cora" Welty Brandon, born March 26, 1871. (7 and 8 were 
twins.) 



3 Nathan^ W. Brandon, born October 8, 1828 ; killed March 
12, 1832, by a tree falling on him. 

4 William^ G. Brandon, born August 22, 1831 ; died Septem- 
ber 12, 1850. 

5 Joshua^ W. Brandon, born May 3, 1834; married Rachel 
Whitney in April, 1858, who was born in Springfield, Ohio, in 
1839. In 1871 he moved to Kansas, where he took up a home- 
stead, remained on it until he got a patent for it, sold it and 
moved to Smith Center, Kan., where he still resides. 



John Kxox^ Jr., and Descendants. 177 

Issue. 

1 William^ Knox Brandon, born 1859; married Cassie Ridge- 
way. 

Issue. 

1 Joseph^ Worley Brandon, born 1888. 

2 Stella^ Brandon, died in infancy. 

3 Dora^ Brandon, born 1892. 

2 Klara® May Brandon. 



6 Gideon*^ Brandon, born May 3, 1834, in Shelby county, Ohio. 
In 1855 he removed with his father's family to Warren county, 
Iowa, in 1859; married Sarah M. Varner. (Her second mar- 
riage was to a Mrs. Smith; no children by her.) He died in 
1887, in Des Moines, Iowa. He and Joshua were twins. 

Issue. 

1 Bdgar« V. Brandon, born 1859; died 1861. 

2 OssabeP Brandon, born 1860; C. H. Heath, of Fort Dodge, 
Iowa. 

Issue. 

1 Henry^ Robert Heath, born 1883. 

3 Knox® Brandon, born 1863; .died 1863. 

4 Estella« Brandon, born 1864; died 1864. 

5 Benjamin® F. Brandon, born 1865. 
G Charlie® Brandon, born 1867. 



7 Benjamin^ K. Brandon, born 1836 ; died 1837. 

8 Thomas^ J. Brandon, born May 4, 1838; died 1852. 

9 Caleb^ Knox Brandon, born February 3, 1843; died 1843. 



Benjamin* K. Brandon's second wife, had one daughter by 
her first husband, name Maggie McKown. She married Arthur 
Richards, December 6, 1857. To them were born ten children : 

1 Preston A. Richards, bom 1859; was drowned in South 
River in 1867. 



178 The Knox Family. 

2 Frank A. Eichards, born August 7, 1861. 

3 Mary Ella Richards, born March 9, 1864 ; married October 
9, 1892, Dr. C. C. Cherrykilms, of Columbus, Ohio. 

4 John M. Richards, born July 1, 1866. 

5 Stella Capitola Richards, born November 10, 1868; mar- 
ried October 7, 1891, H. J. Bryson, of Indianola, Iowa. 



3 Eliza* Brandon, eldest daughter of Benjamin Brandon and 
wife, Mary Knox Brandon; married John McClary; had seven 
children : 

1 Mary' Jane McClary. 

2 James' McClary, of Covington, Ohio ; married Nancy Buch- 
anan. 

Issue. 

1 Aveline*' McClary married John West. 

2 George® McClary married Cemelda Lambert. 

Issue. 

1 James^ McClary. 

2 Lula^ McClary married William Ebberts. 

Issue. 

1 Edith^ Ebberts. 

2 . 3 . 

3 Winfield« Wesley McClary. 

4 Laura" McClary. 



3 Casandra' McClary married Thomas Westfall, Wintersett, 
Iowa. 

Issue. 
1 John« West-fall. 

4 Elizabeth' McClary married Mr. Bruce, Wintersett, Iowa. 

5 Oliver^* McClary. 

6 Benjamin' McClary married Martha J. Suber. 



Joiix Kxox^ Jr., and Descendants. 179 

Issue. 

1 Francis" McClary. 

2 George" McClary. 

3 Ann" McClary married Charles Anderson; have several 
children. 

4 William" McClary. 

5 Mary" McClary married Mr. Strum. 

6 Elizalx?th" McClary. 

7 Martha" McClary. 

8 Alven" McClarv". 



7 John' H. McClary, youngest son of John McClary and Eliza 
Brandon McClary. married Emma C. Stinchoomb; reside in 
Kirbyville, Mo. Mr. McClary has filled several positions of 
honor in his county; was elected county surveyor in 1876, and 
presiding judge of the county court in 1878; served four years. 
Also as surveyor again from 1883 to 1885. Again judge of court 
in 1894. He has a large family as follows : 

1 Calista" McClary. 

2 Leora" E. McClary married Caleb Eose. 

Issue. 



1 


John^ 


W. Rose. 


2 


Elsie* 


Rose. 


3 


Bertha' Rose. 


4 


Dora' 


Rose. 


5 


Ewin' 


Rose. 


6 


Yirgil 


■ Rose. 



7 Del mas' Rose. 

8 Ada' Rose. (Address, Midlothian, Oklahoma.) 

3 Clarence" E. McClary married Dica E. Pike, Kirbyville, Mo. 

Issue. 

1 Bena' V. McClary. 

2 Ernest" E. ]kIcClary. 

3 John^ W. McClary." 



180 The Knox Family. 

4 Ul3'S'ses*' G. McClary married Hettie A. Rose, Chantller, 
Oklahoma. 

Issue. 

1 PearF McClary. 

2 May" McClary. 

3 Louisa^ McClarv. 

4 Abner" McClary. 

5 Exie^ McClary. 

5 Eugene** McClary married Laura Roberts, Midland, Indian 
Territory. 

Issue. 

1 EtheF McClary. 

2 EdAvard^ McClary. 

3 John^ W. McClary. 

4 Clarence^ McClary. 

6 Alonzo« S. McClary. 

7 Dora** F. McClary married James F. Haggard, Kirbyville, 
Missouri. 

8 Owen^ A. McClary married Mary — — . Oolagah, Ind. Ter. 

Issue. 
1 Katrina^ McClary. 

9 Emma** E. McClary married Richard I. Smith. 

Issue. 
1 Ira' Smith. 

10 Laura® A. McClary married Andrew J. Hawkins, Lucia, 
Missouri. 

Issue. 

1 Eber' Hawkins. 

2 Vena' B. Hawkins. 

3 Clyde' Hawkins. 

11 John* McClary married Rosetta . Midlothian, Okla. 

Issue. 

1 Bena' C. McClary. 

2 CeciF McClary. 



Jonx Knox^ Jn., and Descexdaxts. 181 

12 Man*' L. McC'lary married Frederick Franklin. 
la Eva-^' lAIcClary. 

SECTIOX n. 

4 Fannie* Brandon, daughter of Benjamin Brandon and Mary 
Knox Brandon, married Samuel Nicholson, of Mianii county, 
Ohio. She was named for her aunt, Fannie Knox Patterson, of 
Xorth Carolina. She died in 1833 when her youngest son, Sam- 
uel, was only one year old. She was huried in the cemetery in 
Newl>erry Springs, Union county, Ohio. He died in 1804. They 
had five children : 

1 John X. 

2 Melissa. 

3 Mary. 

4 Benjamin. 

5 Samuel. 

1 John'' Nicholson, eldest sou of Fannie B. and Samuel Nich- 
olson, born 1820; resides near Polo, Ohio; married in 1856, 
Etta Buchanan (a relative of President Buchanan). They cele- 
brated their golden wedding April 1, 1901. (The writer is in- 
debted to Cousin John Nicholson for his assistance in getting up 
the genealogy of the Brandon family. His cheerful, jovial let- 
ters have been much enjoyed.) He is very hale for his eighty- 
four years, and retains all mental faculties to a remarkable de- 
gree. His children, only two, as follows : 

1 W.*^ P. Nicholson married Carrie Shepley. 

Issue. 

1 Blanche' Nicholson married John Allgyre. 

Issue. 
1 William^ L. Allgyre. 

2 Glenna" Nicholson. 



2 Emma*^ Isadore Nicholson married William Hart. 

Issue. 
1 Clarence" Hart married Mvrtlo McMaken. 



182 The Knox Family. 

Issue. 

1 Harry^ Hart. 

2 HazeP E. Hart. 

3 Margaret® Hart. 

2 Eva^ Hart married ^Yilliam Harmony. 

Issue. 

1 Ralph® Harmony. 

2 Zilpha® Harmony. 

3 John® W. Harmony. 

4 Eugene® Harmony. 



2 Melissa^ Nicholson, daughter of Fannie B. and Samuel 
Nicholson, was born 1822; married Alexander Patterson, of 
Iowa. They had three children : Melissa, Samuel and Sarah 
Isadore. Her daughter, Mrs. Sherman, writes thus of her 
mother : Her mother died when she was only ten years of age — 
John older, Mary, Benjamin and Samuel younger. With the 
help of her father, she was a mother to the family, caring for and 
keeping the little ones together. Sometimes when her father 
was absent from home, called to the bedside of a sick neighbor, 
or gone to mill, the children hear something overhead in the 
log house, and being afraid of Indians, she and the little ones 
pass the night in the corncrib, making every possible effort to 
keep the baby quiet. The Bible was a text-book where she went 
to school, and the first sentence she learned to read was, "The 
fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom," and most truly has 
this wisdom shone forth in her daily life. Duty was pleasure 
with her. Mr. Patterson was a widower with five children when 
she married him. He too was of Scotch descent. Shortly after 
marriage she removed to her husband's home in Iowa. Her 
younger brothers were already in Iowa. 

1 Melissa® Patterson married Jackson Roder. 

Issue. 

1 Ralph^ Roder. 

2 Valentine^ C. Roder. 

3 Alexander^ Knox Roder. 

4 Ruth^ Roder. 



John Kxox-^ Jr., and Descendants. 183 

2 Samuel® Patterson married Louisa Roder. 

Issue. 
1 Helen E. Patterson. 

3 Sarah® Isadore Patterson married Fred Sherman, Ladora, 
Iowa. 

Issue. 

1 Blanche Sherman. 

2 Sylvester F. Sherman. 

3 Ealph L. Sherman. 

4 Samuel P. Sherman. 



3 Mary^ Nicholson, born 1824; married Jefferson Meenack. 
She married in Ohio, went to Iowa after her father's death; 
died in 1883. 

Issue. 

1 Melissa® Meenack married W. Daniel Beem. 

Issue. 

1 Ruth^ Beem. 

2 Frances^ Beem. 

3 Martha^ Beem. 

2 M.® J. Meenack married Frank Farley. 

Issue. 

1 Joe'' Farley. 

2 David^ Farley. 

3 Maggie^ Farley. 

4 Mary^ Farley. 

5 Zada^ Farley. 

6 Kossuth^ Farley. 

3 Robert® Meenack married Lucy Farley. 

Issue. 

1 Donald^ Meenack. 

2 Grace^ Meenack. 



184 The Knox Family. 

4 Benjamin'^ Nicholson, born 1827 ; married Elizabeth Harp. 

Issue. 
1 SamiieP Wesley Nicholson married Matilda Belt. 

Issue. 

1 Nellie" Nicholson. 

2 Eoy'^ Nicholson. 

3 Mollie" Nicholson. 

4 Pearl' Nicholson. 

5 Eva^ Nicholson. 

6 Wesley^ Nicholson. 

2 Mamie** Nicholson married George Hannah. 

Issue. 

1 AureF Hannah. 

2 Alvie^ Hannah. 

3 Floyd^ Hannah. 

3 Saral/' I. Nicholson married William Edwards. 

Issue. 

1 Vernie" Edwards. 

2 Nellie^ Edwards. 

4 Lib" Nicholson married Wylie Nicholson. 

Issue. 
1 Archibald^ Nicholson. 



5 Samuel^ Nicholson, Jr., married Eliza Harp. 

Issue. 

1 George Nicholson married Mary Houter. 

Issue. 

1 Clifford Nicholson. 

2 Winnifred Nicholson. 

2 John Nicholson married Ann . Had one or more 

children. 

3 Charles Nicholson married Eosa . 

4 Samuel Nicholson married Belle Wheeler. 



JoHx Knox'-, Jr., and Descexuants. 185 

Issue. 

1 Pearle Xicholson. 

2 Hewitt Nicholson. 

3 Violet Xichobon. 

4 . 



5 Gideon'* Brandon, son of Benjaniiu Brandon and Mary (or 
Polly) Knox Brandon, married Matilda McKinny. They had 
tM'o children: 

1 William^ G. Brandon. 

2 F.^ J. Brandon. 

Know nothing further of this branch. 

G Jane* Brandon, daughter of Benjamin Brandon and Mary 
Knox Brandon, born March 13, 1807, in Miami county, Ohio; 
married William Adams, November 13, 1828, who was also a 
native of Ohio. He died in 1878, in Grafton, Yola county, Cal. 
She died in 1887, same place. 

Issue. 

1 Adaline' Adams, born 1832; married 1849; died 1851, in 
Dark county, Ohio. 

2 Elizabeth^ Adams, born 1834; was killed by the Indians, 
August 12, 18G2, while crossing the plains w^ith her parents. 

3 George^ W. Adams, born 1836; killed by the Indians on 
Snake River, August 12, 1862, on the way to California with his 
parents. He was wounded seven time- in the two days! fight. 

4 Caleb= Adams, born 1829; died 1849 in Dark county, Ohio. 

5 Levi'' Brandon Adams, born 1838; lives in Yola county, 
California. 

6 Tho.-' Joshua Adams, born 1840; died 1886. 

7 Benjamin^ Franklin Adams, born 1843; died 1871 in Yola 
county, Cal. 

8 William^^ Armstrong Adams, born 184o; died 1872. 

9 James'' Madison Adams. l)orn 1848 in Sacramento. Cal. 



18G The Knox Family. 

7 Levi* G. Brandon, youngest son of Benjamin Brandon and 
Mary Knox Brandon, born April 38, 1811, in Miami county, 
Ohio. He remained on the home farm in Ohio until 1855, when 
he moved to Warren county, Iowa. He married M. J. Boulden 
in 1845, who was also a native of Miami county, Ohio. 

Issue. 

1 Mary' A. Brandon, born 1846; married E. A. Whited in 
1861. 

2 Squire^ A. Brandon, born in 1848; married Parthena Pa- 
nandon. 

3 L.'' S. Brandon, born 1850 ; married Rhoda Battles in 1872. 

4 Eliza'' J. Brandon, born 1853. 

5 Lovena' Brandon, born 1855; married Thomas Hey. 

6 SamueP C. Brandon, born 1857. 

7 Arthur' W. Brandon, born 1871; married Bertha Bishop 
in 1894. 



8 John* Brandon, died when a young man. 



SECTION III. 



Benjamin Brandon, who married Mary (or Polly) Knox, as 
recorded in the beginning of this chapter, was born in Rowan 
county, N. C, in 1759. His father was James Brandon, whose 
will is found on record in Salisbury, N. C. We give a copy of 
this old will, as obtained from the clerk of court, thinking it 
may be of special interest to the Brandon descendants. From 
this old will we have tried to locate the homestead of this family 
of Brandons, and conclude that the lands lay just north from 
Third Creek Church, and the mill property mentioned was that 
now known as Baker's Mill. 

Dr. Rumple, in his valuable history of Rowan, makes mention 
of several Brandon families, but seems to have had very little 
knowledge of this family. Though he does mention Brandons on 
Fourth Creek, which may have been this family. 

Benjamin Brandon's house was burned in the early days, and 
the Bible record lost, which makes it impossible to get all the 
dates. 



John Kxox-^ Jr., and Descendants. 



187 



Benjamin Brandon was a soldier in the Revolutionary War; 
enlisted when a youth of eighteen years. We give below a copy 
of the record obtained from the Bureau of Pensions at Wash- 
ington. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C, Xov. 23, 1894. 

Sir: In reply to your request for a statement of the military liistory 
of Benjamin Brandon, a soldier of the Revolut-ionary War, you will find 
below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) ap- 
plication for pension filed in this Bureau. 





1-3 


M 

a 


OfQcers under whom service was rendered. 






DaAe of enl 
riient or 
polntmen 


Captain. 


Colonel. 


a 

93 


From the 

spring of 

1777 to 

1782 he 

rendered 

at least 

8 tours 

of duty. 


3 mos. 

3 mos. 

(?) 
3 mos. 
3 mos. 
3 mos. 
3 mos. 


Priv. 
>< 

(< 

i( 

« 1 

4 ( 
t i 


Wm. Armstrong, 
John Knox, 
Graham & Grimes, 
William Armstrong, 
Abel Armstrong, 
John Bickerstaflf, 
Abel Armstrong, 
Abel Armstrong, 


Francis Locke, 
McDougal, 
Not stated, 
Francis Locke, 
Joseph Dixon, 

Smith, 
David Caldwell, 
David Caldwell, 


N. 


C. 



Battles Ramsour's Mills, Cowpens, Cowen's Ford, Torrence'a 

engaged Cross Roads. Residence of Soldier at enlistment: Rowan 
in, Co., N. C. Date of application for pension Oct. 29, 1832. 

Residence at date of application: Miami Co., Ohio. Age at 
date of application: Born April, 1759, in Rowan Co., N. C. 
Remarks. In 1804, removed to Tennessee, in 1808 to Miami Co., 

Ohio; died May 5, 1837. His widow, Polly, to whom he 
was married Feb. 6, 1790, was also a pensioner. 
Very respectfully, 

William Lochren, Commissioner. 

To Mr. Samuel B. Judah, Vincennes, Ind. 

This Mr. Judah is a grandsoji of Armstrong Brandon (brother 
to Benjamin.) 

Mr. John Nicholson, of Polo, Ohio, says he had heard his 
grandmother, who was Polly Brandon, relate the circumstance 



18S The Knox Family. 

of John Knox using his bridle in place of clevis pin, when pur- 
sued by the British, and of his grandfather, Benjamin Brandon, 
being wounded in the knee hiding in the bushes and letting the 
Tories and British pass him by unnoticed. 

This John Knox was Polly Brandon's father, son of John 
Knox, emigrant. 

The clerk of court in Eowan county, X. C, finds in Will Book 
"B," page 40, the will of James Brandon, which is given below. 



Copy of Will. 

June 17, 1790. 

In the name of God Amen. I, James Brandon, of Eowan 
countv, in the State of North Carolina, being verv sick and weak 
of Body, but of perfect mind an "! memory, thanks be given unto 
God and calling to mind the mortality of my Body, and that it 
is appointed for men to die. Do make this my last will and tes- 
tament and principally and first of all I give and Hecommend 
my soul into the hands of God that gave it, hoping through the 
Death, merits and Entersesion of my Lord and Saviour Jesus 
Christ to have a full and free pardon and forgiveness of all my 
sins and to Inherit everlasting life, and my Body I commit to 
the earth to be buried in a decent Christian burial at the discre- 
tion of my Executors hereafter named, nothing doubting but to 
Receive the same again at the General Eesurrection by the 
mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly Estate 
wherewith it has pleased God to bless me with in this life, I give 
Demise, Bequeath and Dispose of in the following manner and 
form (Viz.) It is my will and pleasure that all those Just debts 
and Duties as I do owe to any manner of person or |5ersons 
whomsoever either in Law or Equity be first paid in some Con- 
venient time after my decease by my Executors hereafter named. 

Itim. I give, demise ajid Bequeath unto my Beloved son 
William Brandon that tract of land whereon he now lives, Be- 
ginning at the mouth of the spring branch on the Xorth Side 
of Fourth Creek, and running up said branch to the head thereof 
thence a west course to the boundarv line of said Tract, thence 



Joux Kxox-', Jr., axd Dksckxdaxts. IS',1 

the course is of the original Deed to the Mill Dam, theiuo down 
the eourse is of the dam and Creek to the Beginning. Including 
the grist mill with one third part of the saw mill <inly, and my 
Xegroe Wench Florah and her child called Yank, and to hi;? heirs 
and assigns forever. 

Itini. I give, demise and bequeath unto my Loving son Ben- 
jamin Brandon Two Hundred & fifty Acres of my Land on the 
north side of fourth Creek, Including the Improvements where 
he now lives, Beginning at the Original Beginning corner on the 
Xorth Bank of fourth Creek, and so round according to the 
course is for compliment and my Negroe fellow called Paul and 
one-third part of the Saw Mill to his heirs and assigns for- 
ever. 

Itini. I give, demise and Bequeath unto my Loving son John 
Brandon all the Eemainder of mv Land on the north side of 
fourth Creek Lying betwixt William's & Benjamin's parts afore- 
said, and my Negroe fellow Harry, and to his heirs and assigns 
forever, and one third part of the Saw Mill. 

Itim. I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Jane Wilson 
my Xegroe wench Hannah and all and singular her sisters ap- 
parel and bed and bed clothes and the Sheep called Mary's, and 
to her assigns and heirs forever. 

Itim. I give and bequeath and Demise unto my Loving son 
Abel Brandon one half of the plantation I live on on the south 
side of fourth Creek, both in Quality and Quantity, and my 
Negroe Wench called Kate and my Dun Colt, and to his heirs 
and assigns forever. 

Itim. I give. Bequeath and demise unto my loving son Arm- 
strong Brandon the Remainder of my plantation whereon I now 
live on the south side of fourth Creek, and my Xegroe wench 
Dinah the half of my Sheep and my Dun filly, and to his heirs 
and assigns forever. 

Itim. I give and bequeath to my well beloved Wife Eebeccha 
her dower of and in all my Land on the south side of fourth 
Creek demised as aforesaid to my two sons Abel & Armstrong, 
together with all and singular my household furniture and use 
of my mention house, my sorrel mare, five milk cows, the one- 



190 The Knox Family. 

half of the sheep and my roand Coult, and to her heirs and as- 
signs forever. 

Lastly, the remainder and Kesidiie of my Estate, both real and 
personal, I Give and Bequeath to my two youngest sons (viz.) 
Abel and Armstrong, share and share alike to them and their 
heirs and assigns forever. 

Lastly, I name, ordain, Constitute and appoint Abel Arm- 
strong and my son Benjamin Brandon Executors of this my 
last Will and testament, hereby revoking and disannnling all 
former and other wills, Testaments, Bequests, demise and Execu- 
tors by me in any manner of ways before this time Named, 
Willed, Bequeathed, Demised or appointed. Ratifying and con- 
firming this and no other to be my last will and Testament. 

James Brandon. (Seal.) 
Signed, sealed, published, 
pronounced and declared 
by the said James Brandon 
as his last Will and Testament, 
in presence of us the subscribing 
Witnesses, 

Isaac Hughey, 

Henry Hughey, 

Samuel Young. 

State of North Carolina, Rowan County. 

I, W. G. Watson, Clerk of the Superior Court of the aforesaid 
County and State, do certify that the foregoing is a correct copy 
of the Will of James Brandon as recorded in this office in Record 
of Wills, "B," page 49. In testimony whereof I hereunto set 
my hand and the seal of the said Court, at office in Salisbury, 
this 26th day of January, 1895. 

(Seal.) W. G. Watson, Cleric Superior Court. 

North Carolina. 

Mr. Watson also finds that James Brandon was a memlier of 
the Committee of Public safety during the Colonial days. The 
following is his certificate. 



JoHx Kxox*, Jr., and Descexdants. 191 

Rowan County, N. C. 

I, W. G. Watson, Clerk Superior Court, certify that it appears 
from copies of Colonial Records of North Carolina, filed in that 
office, that James Brandon, in the year 1775, was a niemlxT of 
and at one time clerk of the Safety Committee of Rowan county. 
It also appears from said Colonial Records that James Brandon 
was, in August, 1775, appointed second major of Rowan Minute 
Men hy the Provincial Congress at Hillsborough, N. C. 

Witness my hand and official seal this the 26th day of Januarv, 
1895. 

(Signed) W. G. W\\tson, Clerk Superior Court. 

It is not known with certainty the maiden name of James 
Brandon's wife. In the will she is called Rebecca. It is thought 
by the Brandon descendants that she was an Armstrong. Alx^l 
Brandon, we learn, married a Miss Jeanette Knox at Knoxville, 
Tenn., about 1794. We cannot ^say what relation she was to 
Polly (or Mary) Knox, Benjamin Brandon's wife, and cannot 
place her on our Knox Tree. Some think she may have be- 
longed to our Joseph branch, though not sure that she was. 

Armstrong Brandon, born about 1778; married in Piqua, 
Ohio, Eliza McCorkle, daughter of Joseph McCorkl?, who had 
emigrated to Ohio from Rowan county, N. C, and who was 
closely related to Rev. Samuel E. McCorkle, one of the early 
pastors of Thyatira Church. Famous as a teacher and preacher. 
Armstrong Brandon was named for Capt. Armstrong, who was 
killed at the battle of Ramsour s Mills. He removed to Corydon, 
Ind., in 1816; there he was State printer, editor of the Indiana 
Gazette, and U. S. P. M. 

The three Brandon brothers, Benjamin, Abel and Armstrong, 
settled in Miami county, Ohio, about 1808. It seems that John 
Brandon died in North Carolina in 1806. (See on Absalom 
Knox branch.) Of William Brandon we can learn nothing ex- 
cept that he was a witness to John Brandon's will, so must have 
lived after John's death. Some of the Abel Brandon family 
have it by tradition that one of the sons of James Brandon was 
killed in battle in the Revolutionary War, and that his horse 



193 The Kxox Family. 

came home a distance of seventeen miles without his rider, and 
that his friends went to the field of battle and found Ids corpse. 
If such was the case, we do not know his name. It would not, 
of course, be mentioned in the Will, as that was made years after 
the war. Judging from the location of the James Brandon farm 
on Fourth Creek, it must have been one of the engagements 
when Cornwallis invaded Rowan county. Cowan's Ford, or 
Torrence's Cross Eoads. 

We know nothing of the daughter, Jane Wilson, mentioned in 
the James Brandon will. 

SECTION IV. 

2 Jane^ Knox, daughter of John^ Knox and Hannah Reid, 
married David Reid, her cousin, and lived in Iredell county, 
N. C. They reared a family of eight children, all of whom lived 
to good old age, though but few of them left descendants, as 
will be seen by the record. 

Issue. 

1 George* Reid married Elizabeth Houpe; no children. 

2 Lamira* Reid married a Dobbins. 

3 Franklin* Reid married Alby; three children. 

1 Romulus'^ Reid married, first. Belle Harris; second time a 
Tatum. 

Issue, 

1 Bert« Reid. 

2 Flake* Reid. 

2 Bettie"^ Reid married a Holland. 

Issue. 

1 Myrtle® Holland. 

2 SherriP Holland. 

3 Forest* Holland. 

4 Glenn" Holland. 

5 Roide* Holland. 

6 CarP Holland. 

7 Susan* Holland. 



John- f\xox% .hi., and Descendants. 193 

3 Sallie" Reid married Tomlin. 

Issue. 
1 Samson" Tomlin. 



4 John-' Koid. 
•5 Eliza* Rcid. 
() James* I?eid married Miss Lazenby, 

Issue. 

1 Xettie^ Reid. 

2 Ida^ Eeid married a Burgess. 

Issue. 







2 


t 

8 


Adaline* 
Melissa* 


Eeid. 
Eeid. 



SECTION V. 

o George^ Knox, son of John Knox^ and wife, Hannah Eeid, 
was born in Eowan county, N. C, in 1774; died in July, 1869, 
aged ninety-five years. He married Miss Esther Eenshaw, who 
was also a native of Eowan county. He was a farmer; lived in 
Western Eowan, some four miles south of Cleveland, in the same 
vicinity where his grandfather had settled. And it may be that 
the land owned by him was a part of the original tract of six 
hundred acres bought by John Knox, emigrant. George Knox 
was the writer's grandfather, and quite vivid is the recollection 
of his genial smile and natural good humor, his heavy silvery 
hair and tottering step, and his earnest importunate prayer, both 
around the family altar and in the sanctuary. 

Among his earliest recollections of any note, he would tell us, 
his grandchildren, how he. when a small boy, at the woodpile 
helping his mother pick up chips, heard the big guns when the 
British under Cornwallis were crossing the Catawba Biver, dur- 
ing the Eevohuionary War. (We may imagine what anxious 
forebodings swelled in that mother's breast, fearing it might not 



194 The Knox Family. 

be well with the absent father and husband.) What a delight it 
was to us children to look away down the long lane and see 
grandpa coming on his old white horse, "Betsy," for we knew 
to expect a wallet of good mellow apples, ginger cakes, or some- 
thing for t\\e little folks, from grandpa's house. The subject of 
this sketch was a staunch Presbyterian. He loved the house of 
God and took delight in the assembling of his saints to worship 
him. 

He first united with the church at old Third Creek, where all 
of his children were baptized. 

This little item by tradition is related by one of his sons, Eev. 
James Knox : 

"In the early settlement of our ancestors the country was in 
the woods, and a magnificent grazing country it was all up and 
down Third Creek. A man (semi-barbarian) by the name of 
Mclwrath owned a great amount of land on both sifles of the 
creek probably, and had large droves of horses. He forbade the 
original memljers of Third Creek Church from making roads 
through his land; had a law suit on it. Our church-going an- 
cestors and other emigrants gained it on the grounds that it 
was their meeting and mill road." 

This uncle also says he had vividly in imagination and mem- 
ory the old original log church in which the whole family were 
baptized. (The brick church was built not far from 1830.) The 
Rev. Joseph D. Kilpatrick was pastor of this church for many 
years. 

When Back Creek Church was organized, about the year 1805, 
George Knox and family removed to that church, and there is 
where he and wife and most of the family w^re laid to rest. 
Plain tombstones bearing the names and dates of George Knox 
and wife, Esther Knox, may be seen near the gate of entrance, to 
the right, in the Back Creek graveyard. 

We have heard the old grandfather tell, with much enthusiasm, 
about the old revivals of 1801 and 1802. How he and others 
went in covered wagons all the way to Orange- and Randolph 
counties to take part in the great revival meetings. We think 
he attended the great camp-meeting at Cross Roads Church in 



John Knox^ Jr., and Descendants. 195 

1801, mentioned by Foote in his Sketches of NortJi Carolina as 
the first camp-meeting in North Carolina. He was widely known 
by the familiar name of Old Uncle George Kno.x. He lived over 
thirty years after the companion of his bosom was called home, 
and during the infirmities of age was tenderly cared for by his 
eldest daughter Nancy, who married Lingle, and remained with 
him at the old homestead. (The place is now owned by Mr. 
Frank Owens.) 

To George" Knox and Esther Eenshaw Knox were born six 
children, three sons and three daughters, viz., 1 John, 2 Rufus, 
3 James, 4 Xancy, 5 Mary and 6 Fannie (or Frances). 

1 John* Knox, eldest son of George Knox and Esther Renshaw 
Knox, was born 1807; married Margaret Knox, his seeomi cou- 
sin, a daughter of Benjamin Knox, on William branch; had no 
children; lived in Iredell count}', X. C, near Amity. He died 
1845. 

2 Rufus* Knox, son of George Knox and Esther Renshaw, was 
born 1809; married Melinda Cowan, and lived a little south of 
the home place, near where his son Robert C. Knox now lives. 
His children were as follows : 

1 Sarah'' Ann Knox died when seven years old. 

2 Mary' Knox married Dr. Thomas J. Witherspoon, of same 
county. He was a soldier in the Confederate States Army ; was 
killed at the battle of Gettysburg. 

Issue. 

1 Burette*' Witherspoon, who died in childhood. 

2 Thomas" J. Witherspoon married Sallie Dixon, of Charlotte, 
X. C. He is a railroad man ; located in Charlotte, X. C. 

Issue. 

1 Thomas^ J. Witherspoon, Jr., died in infancy. 

2 Harry^ Dixon Witherspoon. 

3. Martha^^ Jane Knox married James Gouger, a native of 
€abarrus county. She resides in Statesville, X. C. Mr. Gouger 
died in . 



196 The Knox Family. 

Issue. 

1 Minnie* Gouger, a first-cla&s dressmaker. 

2 Mary® Gouger has been for some years a trained nurse in the 
Government Hospital, in Washington, D. C. 

3 Anna® Gouger married Dr. George E. Cecil, of Flat Lick, 
Kentucky. 

Issue. 

1 BasiF Cecil. 

2 Frances^ Hazelhurst Cecil. 

3 Ralph^ Howe Cecil. 

4 Alexander^ Bradson Cecil, 

4 Virgie® Gouger, died in 1899. 

5 Ralph® Gouger, assistant postmaster in Statesville, N. C. 

6 Elizabeth® Gouger, a trained nurse; married, in 1904, Burt 
Davis, of Pittsburg. 

7 Nannie® Gouger married, in 1903, Dr. Tillman Ramsey, of 
Pineville, Ky. Dr. Ramsey graduated from the medical depart- 
ment of the University of Pennsylvania in 1899, with first 
honors ; was awarded founder's medal. Now has a large private 
infirmary in Pineville, Ky. 

8 Claire® Gouger. 



4 James^ Piukney Knox ; killed by being thrown from a horse, 
at the age of thirteen years. 

5 Robert' C. Knox married, first, Annie Krider (daughter of 
Rev. B. Scott Krider, pastor of Thyatira Church at the time of 
his death). Two children by this marriage: 

1 Scott* Reid Knox. 

2 Sallie® Knox. 

R. C. Knox's second wife was Zulia Cowan, a descendant of 
Benjamin Knox. Issue by t^is marriage: 

1 Margaret® Linda Knox. 

2 Nannie® Irene Knox. 

3 Ruth® Cowan Knox. 




REV. JAMES KNOX, HENDERSON- TEXAS. 



John Knox-, Ji:., and Descexdaxts. 197 

SECTIOX YI. 

3 Rev. James* Knox, json of George Knox and wife, Ei^ther 
Renshaw, was born in 1811, in liowan county, X. ('. He gradu- 
ated in the first class at Davidson College in 18-10. His theo- 
logical course was taken at Princeton Seminary, Xcw Jersey, 
where he was graduated in IS-l-t, and, we think, was licensed to 
preach the same year. He located first at Marion, Ala., where 
for ten years he taught a successful school, also preaching to 
weak churches in that vicinity. From Marion he removed far- 
ther West, laboring as both preacher and teacher. In about 1863 
he went to Cherokee county, Texas. Later to Harrison county, 
and taught school at Elysian Fields. During these years he 
preached at various points, and did much to perpetuat'i the faith 
of the church in which he was reared — the Presbyterian. 

In those pioneer days in which he labored many hardships 
had to be endured. Twas nothing unusual for him to ride fifty 
or seventy-five miles to meet his appointments, and that on horse- 
back. (He was very fond of horsel)ack riding, even when an 
octegenarian, and always kept his horse and saddle. I have st-en 
him mount his horse "Dandigo" from the ground when in his 
eighty-fifth year.) 

Later in life he spent some years at Harmony Hill, Texas, and 
from there to Henderson, where he died January 1, 1898, and 
was laid to rest in the cemetery there, amid the graves of many 
whom he had known and loved as friends in life. He had many 
warm friends in Henderson. The writer visited him in January, 
1896, and met several of them. He never married, and never 
revisited the old home of his childhood in Xorth Carolina after 
he left in 1847. During the civil war the relatives here in Xorth 
Carolina could hear nothing from him. After the w.ir we wrote 
the postmaster at his former office, and thereby learned of his 
whereabouts. From that time he and the writer, his niece, kept 
up a correspondence during the remainder of his life. 

Before leaving his native State in 1847, James Knox drew up 
a little sketch of the Knox family to which he belonged, tracing 
back to liis great-grandfather, John Knox, emigrant from Scot- 



198 The Knox Family. 

land, whose record, as far as we have it, you find in the Ix-ginning 
of these pages. 

This short sketch, on a sheet of foolscap paper, has proved the 
root from which has grown the huge Knox Tree, with its wide- 
spreading ranches and thousands of smaller limbs bearing names 
of descendants. 

Thanks to the memor.y of Eev. James Knox for much of the 
data regarding our Knox ancestors. 

4 Nancy* C. Knox, eldest daughter of George'^ Knox and 
Esther Eenshaw Knox, was born in 1814. She married Moses 
Lingle. 

Early in life she gave her heart to the Saviour, and united 
with the Back Creek Presbyterian Church, Rowan county, of 
which she remained a devoted and consistent member until lier 
death. For many years she was a faithful and e-arnest teacher 
in the Sabbath-school, and many of those who are now the 
fathers and mothers of the church look back and say, "She was 
my first Sunday-school teacher." Though living quite a distance 
from the church, it was very seldom that her place in the sanc- 
tuary was vacant. Her pastor, Rev. J. A. Ramsay, says of her in 
an obituary, "During a pastorate of fourteen years it was my 
privilege to see her often, to commune with her much, and to 
have my. own faith strengthened by seeing the simple trustful 
confidence she always placed in her Saviour. I have often 
thought that she lived as near the cross, and in as close commu- 
nion with the Master as any Christian I ever knew; and have 
frequently felt that I received more than I imparted in those 
many sweet communings we have had together. In the one great 
affliction of her life the death of her husband, her faith and sub- 
mission were beautiful to witness, and one felt more like sitting 
down and admiring her religion than endeavoring to speak 
words of comfort."' 

After her husband's death she remained at the old home two 
years, afterward making her home with her only living sister^ 
Mrs. Culbertson. 

In May, 1890, she was stricken with paralysis, and for over 
three years was confined to her bed, a helpless paralytic. All 



JOHX KXOX-, JU., AND DESCENDANTS. ]II!» 

that time so patient and uncomplaining, always afraid of giving 
trouble. It was my privilege to be her constant companion and 
nurse during these years of helplessness. She seemed to be ''only 
waiting" for the Master's time of release. 

She passed away July 6, 1893, at the home of her brother-in- 
law, Mr. Richard Culberton, near Wood Leaf, X. C, and Avas 
laid to rest in Back Creek Cemetery, by the side of her husband. 

She had no children that lived. She was known far and wide 
by the endearing name, "Aunt Nancy." 

Moses Lingle, her husband, was born in Cal>arrus county, 
N. C, was an elder in the church at Back Creek, also the faithful 
superintendent of the Sunday-school for many .years. He died 
in 1887 of pneumonia. His funeral text was from Psalm xii. 1, 
"Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth, for the faithful fail 
from among the children of men." He was of German descent, 
and could read six languages. His grandmother came over from 
Germany when a young maiden ; was at one time captured by the 
Indians, but finally made her escape by following the directions 
of one old Indian squaw, who befriended her. Her maiden name 
was Christina Weisner. 

Moses Lingle was an uncle to the three Lingle Brothers, Rev. 
William Lingle, a missionary in China, Rev. Walter Lingle, and 
Thomas Lingle, now a professor in a college in Brazil. 

SECTION VII. 

5 Mary* Brandon Knox, second daughter of George Knox and 
Esther Renshaw Knox, was born June 16, 1816, in Rowan 
county, N. C, married Jacob Fisher Goodman, October 15, 1845. 
Died at her residence, Mt. Ulla, November 12, 1874, aged fifty- 
eight years. 

She was named for her Aunt Mary (or Polly) Knox Brandon, 
her father's sisier, who had removed to Ohio years before she 
was born. The following lines, written as an obituary after her 
death, give some idea of her character to those who did not know 
her: 

"From early youth she was a consistent member of the Pres- 



200 The KxXox Family. 

byterian Church of Back Creek, and truly was she 'a living epis- 
tle known and read of all men,' showing by her godly walk and 
conversation the beauty and reality of the religion she professed. 
She loved the house of God and the communion and fellowship 
of his people. Seldom was her seat in the sanctuary or prayer- 
meeting vacant, even when the pallid cheek and languid eye 
spoke the suffering of which she did not complain. The 'law of 
kindness emphatically dwelt upon her tongue,' and truly may we 
exclaim : 

"None knew her but to love her, 
None named her but to praise." 

This beloved 'mother in Israel' lived to see all of her children, 
two sons and two daughters, gathered into the fold of Christ, and 
thus could cry with Simeon of old, 'Now let thy servant depart 
in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation.' 

"Her illness was sudden and severe, but while she retained 
consciousness, she expressed with the utmost calmness her con- 
fidence and trust in the Saviour. 

" Just as the sun was setting, she took her upward flight, 
Leavinor the world in darkness for the realms of endless light. 
Oh! glory bright, eternal. Oh! joys supreme and blest. 
Life's pains and cares and toils exchanged for heaven's eternal rest." 

C. 

The fourth verse of the twenty-third Psalm were among her 
last words on earth. Her remains were interred in Back Creek 
Cemetery. 

Jacob Fisher Goodman, husband of Mary B. Knox, was born 
July 2, 1823, in Cabarrus county, X. C. He was the third son 
of Jacob C. Goodman and Sophia Faggert Goodman. His 
mother died while he was quite 3'oung. When about fifteen years . 
of age, he, with the family, moved to Rowan, some sixteen miles 
west of Salisbury. 

In May, 1847, he, together v,'ith his two older brothers, pro- 
fessed religion, ind united with Back Creek Church; that very 
night erected a family altar in his house, around which he ever 
after worshipped. He served first as deacon, and later, in April, 



JoHX Knox^ Jr., and Descendants. 3ui 

1860, was chosen ruling elder in Back Creek Church, was clerk 
of session for some years (during the time Kev. W. B. Watts was 
pastor), faithfully performing the duties of these offices. The 
last suggestion he made in the sessional meeting was to establish 
a weekly prayer-meeting. He served also as a civil magistrate 
in his township, was a member of the Sons of Temperance, a 
society for the promotion of temperance. He was a fai'mer. He 
was out in the Confederate service with the Home Guard a few 
months; was never in an engagement. He was universally 
esteemed by all who knew him. His last words were, "To-day 
shalt thou be with me in paradise." He died November 4, 1869, 
in his fortv-sixth year; was buried in Back Creek graveyard. 

The children of Mary B. and Jacob F. Goodman were four in 
number, as follows: 

1 Hattie'' S. Goodman, born January 18, 1847; the writer of 
these pages. Address, Wood Leaf, N. C. 

2 John^ Knox Goodman, born September 4, 1849; married 
Lizzie Hall, daughter of Mr. Newberry F. Hall, also of Rowan 
county. He is an elder in the church of his fathers — Back 
Creek. Also superintendent of the Sunday-school. He has 
been leader of the music for a numl>er of years ; is now a member 
of the County School Board ; is a successful farmer. He resides 
at ilt. Ulla. on the Mooresville and Winston Railroad. 

Issue. 

1 Mary® Emma Goodman, born ; a graduate of the 

Salem Female Academy and College, North Carolina; is now 
teaching. 

2 Walter" Hall Goodman, born ; teaching at Thyatira 

Church, Rowan county. 

3 Arthur*' Goodman. 

4 Fannie** E. Goodman ; also a graduate of the Salem College. 

5 Howard® Goodman. 



3 Martha^ Jane Goodman, born September 14. 1^52; mar- 
ried Phi Alexander, a native of Cabarrus county. Rocky River 
congregation. He servcnl under General Robert K. Ltx" in the 



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202 The Knox Family. 

C. S. A. In December, 1892, they removed from Rowan county 
to Texas; lived near Austin a year or two; from there to Milam 
county, where they remained four or iive years; are now in Sher- 
man, Texas. 

Issue. 

1 Mary^ Irene Alexander. She has been teaching for some 
years; now in Wapanucka, Ind. Ter. 

2 John^ Watts Alexander, engaged in the cotton buying busi- 
ness; now in Oklahoma. 

3 George^ Cyrus Alexander, in a produce store in Dallas, Tex. 

4 Ealph^ Alexander. On a farm near Grand View, Texas. 

5 Adrian" Reid Alexander. 

6 Richard** Carl Alexander. 

7 Nannie" Elizabeth Alexander. 

8 Fannie" Fisher Alexander, died in infancy. 
(7 and 8 were twins.) 

9 James" Knox Alexander, named for our uncle. Rev. James 
Knox. 



4 George" Caldwell Goodman, born May, 1856; married Miss 
Annie Wilfong, of Newton, N. C. He is in the drug business in 
Mooresville, N. C, where he has been for over twenty years ; is 
a deacon in the Mooresville Presbyterian Church; was secretary 
and treasurer of the Mooresville Cotton Mills for several years; 
is now director in the cotton mills; also president of Mooresville 
Building and Loan Association; director in Bank of Moores- 
ville. 

In reading up on John Knox, the Reformer, we find that one 
of his collegues was named "Goodman," Christopher Groodman. 
By the way, that was the name of my great-great-grandfather, 
Goodman. 

Mr. J. R. Jackman, of Louisville, Ky., writes with reference 
to these names, "I had occasion not long since to examine the 
translation and revisions of the English Bible in 1562 by some 
English exiles, at Geneva in Queen Mary's time, and there were 
mentioned Coverdals and others, viz.,- Goodman and Knox." 



John Knox^ Jr., and Descendaxts. 203 

Quite a coincidence that the two names sliould come to be so 
closely associated, more than three hundred years afterward in 
the persons of Jacob F. Goodman and Mary B. Knox, the writer's 
parents. 

Although we are not able to trace either family that far back 
(15G0), yet we can see our name among the worthies of that age. 
Mr. Paton, of Edinburgh, the gene-alogist, who made research for 
us in the records of Scotland, also mentions this coincidence as 
to names. 



6 Frances* Knox, youngest daughter of George Knox and 
Esther Kenshaw Knox, was born in 1819; married Richard Cul- 
bertson, near Wood Leaf, N. C. She was named for her Aunt 
Fanny (or Frances) Knox Patterson, her father's sister. She 
taught school in her youthful days in the Third Creek neighbor- 
hood. The Rev. William A. Wood, late pastor of the Statesville 
Church, was one of her pupils. She too united with Back Creek 
Presbyterian Church, and by her truly godly life and conversa- 
tion exemplified to those around her the excellency of the reli- 
gion she professed. She was a great Bible reader, an instructive 
Sabbath-school teacher. A friend to those in need or distress, 
often administering deeds of charity, never turning the hungry 
or needy away from her door empty handed. 

She died at her home near Wood Leaf January, 1900, aged 
eighty years; was buried in Unity graveyard. Her only son, 
who lived to manhood, is a Presbyterian preacher. 

(Richard Culberton, husband of Frances Knox, was a son of 
Samuel Gillespie Culbertson and Susan Gray Culberton, of 
Rowan county, N. C. He can trace the Culbertson and Gray 
families back prior to the Revolution. He or his son has a book. 
Genealogy of the Culbertson Family, by one of the name in Ohio. 
Richard Culbertson has been an elder in the Unity Presbyterian 
Church; also clerk of session, the loved and honored superin- 
tendent of the Sunday-school for many years. Truly one of the 
salt of the earth. In the fall of 1901, two years after his wife's 
death, he left the old home and went to live with his son. Rev. 
Rev. R. W. Culbertson, at Mebane, X. C. It was the privilege of 



204 The Knox Family. 

the writer to make her home with this uncle and aunt for a num- 
ber of years, and can truthfully testify to the kindness and hos- 
pitality ever shown in that home.) 

The children born to Frances Knox and R. Culberison were: 

1 James^ Culbertson, who died when seven years old. 

2 Eev.^ Eichard Watt Culbertson, of Mebane, "N". C; was 
born , in Eowan county, N. C. ; married Miss Anna John- 
ston, daughter of Mr. Jobn Dicky Johnston, also of Eowan 
county. He entered Sophomore class, Davidson College, in 1879 
(having been prepared at Woodland Academy), and graduated 
in 1883. Taught one year at South Eiver Academy, one year 
at Unity. Entered Union Seminary, Virginia, in 1885, and took 
two years' course; M'as licensed by Concord Presbytery in 1887, 
and in the same year ordained and installed pastor of Buffalo 
and Bethel Churches, in Orange Presbytery. He remained in 
that charge nearly five years, during which Midway Church was 
organized. In 1892 he accepted calls to Hawfields and Cross 
Eoads Churches (same Presbytery), of which he is still pastor, 
this 1903. Bethany Church has been organized under this pas- 
torate. 

Children of Eev. E. W. Culbertson and wife, Anna J. C, are : 

1 Mary'' Jetton Culbertson. 

2 Frances® Euth Culbertson. 

3 Lucy" Knox Culbertson. 

4 Clara" Culbertson. 

5 John"^ Kingsley Culbertson. 

6 Kathleen" Culbertson. 



SECTION VIII. 

4 Frances" Knox, daughter of John Knox^ and wife Hannah 
Eeid; married James Patterson, and lived in Eowan county on 
what is known as the old Patterson place, where Mr. William 
Graham now lives. 

Issue, 

1 John* Knox Patterson. 

2 Alfred* Patterson married Miss Johnston. 



JoHX Knox-, Jr., and Descendants. '^05 

Issue. 

1 Rebecca' Pat-terson married Waugh. 
1 Bettie" Wausfh married . 



2 Mary^ Frances Patterson married John Moore. 

Issue. 
1 John* Knox Moore. 

3 James' Patterson married Miss Setzer; resides at Trout- 
man's, Iredell county. 

Issue. 

1 Mary* J. Patterson. 

2 Frances® E. Patterson. 

3 Lemuel* Bruce Patterson. 

4 Van* Dorn Patterson. 

4 Thomas' Patterson married Tillie Knox, on Benjamin Knox 

branch. 

Issue. 

1 Katie* Patterson married Espy Brawley, near Mooresville. 



3 James* Patterson married Miss Lowry. 

Issue. 
1 Knox' Patterson married Miss Hall. 

Issue. 
1 Joseph* Patterson married Miss Kimball. 

Issue. 



1 ' 

2 ' 

3 ' 



4 Mary* Patterson married James Owens. 

Issue. 
1 Frances' Owens married Mack Harrison, of Mill Bridge. 



20G The Knox Family. 

Issue. 

1 Sevier*' Harrison married Sallie Carrigan. 

Issue. 
1 James" Owen Harrison. 

2 Annie" Harrison married Samuel Sloan. 

Issue. 

1 Louise" Harrison. 

2 . 

3 Oscar" Harrison married Nannie Sloop. 

4 Egbert" Harrison married Mary Sparrow, of Davidson Col- 
lege. 

Issue. 

1 Frances^ Owen Harrison. 

5 Cooper" Harrison. 

6 J." MeKamie Harrison. 

7 Ida" Harrison. 



5 Ann* Patterson. 
G Hannah"* Patterson. 

7 Eebecca* Patterson. 

8 Jane* Patterson. 

9 Evelina* Patterson. 

10 Houston* Patterson. 

SECTIOX VI. 

5 Margaret^ Knox, daughter of John Knox^ and wife, Hannah 
Eeid, married James Chambers, son of Henry Chambers, who 
was born in Pennsylvania, 13th of July, 1708, and died 1782. 

James Chambers was born Oetol)er 15, 1755, and died 180-4. 

Issue. 

1 Jane* Ann Chambers married Abner Caldwell, son of An- 
drew Caldwell, whose wife was Ruth Sharpe, daughter of Hon. 



John Knox^ Jr., and Descendants. 207 

William Sharpe, a distinguished patriot during the Revolution- 
ary War. Hon. William Sharpe married a daughter of David 
Eeese, one of the signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of In- 
dei>endenoe. Abner Caldwell was a brother of Judge David F. 
Caldwell, and an uncle to Dr. Julius A. Caldwell, of Salisbury, 
North Carolina. 

(The data here given with reference to the Chambers and 
Caldwell families was furnished by Mr. P. B. Chambers of 
Statesville, and Dr. Julius A. Caldwell, of Salisbury, !N . C. Any 
one wishing to know more about these families might gain some 
information from Dr. Rumple's History of Rowan County.) 

Jane Ann and Abner Caldwell had three sons : 1 ■ James"*, 
2 MaxwelP, and 3 David^. If either James or David Caldwell 
left families we are not informed of it. 

2 MaxwelP Caldwell married ]\Irs. Kerns. 

ISSUF. 

1 Laura" Caldwell. 

2 Alice" Caldwell married Mr. Ketner, of China Grove, K". C. 

Issue. 

1 Carrie'' Ketner. 

2 Fanny^ Genaria Ketner. 

3 Archibald^ Caldwell Ketner, 

4 William^ A. Ketner. 

5 Robert^ Munroe Ketner. 

6 Charlie^ Ketner. 

7 Cora^ Lee Ketner. 

8 Henry'' Ketner. 

9 Thomas^ Ketner. 

10 Frederick' Y. Ketner. 



6 Robert^ Knox, son of John Knox^, was killed in young man- 
hood by a falling tree. 

7 Ann^ Knox, daughter of "John Knox^, married Alichal An- 
derson and went to Tennessee. 

8 John^ Knox, son of John Knox^ married a Miss Anderson 



208 The Knox Family. 

(sister to Ann Knox's husband), went to Tennessee. Brother 
and sister married brother and sister, and it is thought they went 
together to Tennessee; not known to what part of the State. 

(We have made several unsuccessful attempts to trace these 
two branches. If any one can aid us in finding any of their de- 
scendants, we would consider it a great favor.) 



CHAPTER X. 
Joseph Knox and his Descendants. 

JOSEPH^ KNOX, son of John Knox, emigrant, and wife, 
Jean Gracy Knox, was born in Rowan county, X. C. ; mar- 
ried a Miss Allison. His name is mentioned in his mother's will, 
wliieh is copied near the beginning of this sketch. One of his 
grandsons, Mr. Benjamin F. Knox, of Milton, Tenn., informs us 
that this Joseph Knox, his grandfatlier, was in the Revolutionary 
War. About the year 1806 he and family, with others of the 
Knox connection, moved from Xorth Carolina to Middle Tennes- 
see. He settled in Wilson county; others of same parly located 
in Rutherford county. According to the record gotten up by 
Rev. James Knox, over fifty-five years ago, Joseph Knox had five 
sons and two daughters, namely, 1 John, 2 Thomas, 3 Delia, 
4 Mary, 5 Squire, 6 Joseph, and 7 Benjamin. 

Have not yet found the descendants of any but John and 
Benjamin. 

We learn from the descendants of Benjamin that there was a 
half brother, Samuel, whose name will be mentioned later. 

We had not been able to obtain any information regdrding this 
Joseph branch, or to add a single name to the seven children 
given above, until the summer of 1897, when the six Knox 
brothers, sons of Dr. Absalom Knox, on the John branch, saw a 
copy of the Knox Tree' we had on exhibition at the Nashville 
Exposition; found that they too belonged on it, and soon sent 
in a number of names to be added, also ordered copies of the 

family Tree. 

Issue. 

1 John^ Knox, eldest son of Joseph Knox, was born in North 
Carolina, near Statesville, Iredell county; married Mary Knox, 
his first cousin, a daughter of his father's brother, Absalom Knox. 
He removed, with his father and younger brothers, to middle 
Tennessee about 1806, and settled in Wilson county. He was 



210 The Knox Family. 

in the battle of New Orleans, served under General William 
Corral, of Tennessee. 

He died in Wilson county, Tenn., in 1847. His wife died in 
1837. 

John Knox and wife, Mary Knox, had eight children, who 
lived to be grown. 

1 Dr. Absalom* Knox, eldest son of John Knox and Mary 
Knox, was born December 20, 1807, near Statesville, Wilson 
county, Tenn. ; was educated in Statesville, Tenn. ; taught 
school; read medicine under Dr. Winn, of Lebanon, Tenn- In 
1832 he located in what was then known as the "Western Dis- 
trict," Gibson county. Tradition says he was the first physician 
in that part of the State. In 1833 he married Miss Sarah Hig- 
gins, of the same county, a woman of strong mind, fair to look 
upon, and worthy of such a man. She died in 1881. 

Dr. Knox was a man of learning and intelligence and of strict 
probity of character. He was an elder in the Cumberland Pres- 
byterian Church; was a delegate to the General Assembly of 
that church which met in Ohio in 1847. While there he met de- 
scendants of William Knox, his mother's brother, who had gone 
from Tennessee to Ohio. He was a man above the average in 
point of ability, was a genial high-toned gentleman, charitable 
to a fault, always ready to help the needy and those in distress. 
In 1848 he, with his family and a few slaves, moved to Panola 
count}-, Miss., where he died in 1854, leaving a wife and seven 
children. Five of the six sons served in C. S. A. throughout the 
war, and all still living except the eldest, who died in 1899. In 
the Confederate Veteran of June, 1897, page 250, we find a 
group portrait of the six sons, with short sketches of each. 

The children of Dr. Absalom Knox and wife, Sarah Higgins 
Knox, were : 

1 John L. Knox. 

2 William H. Knox. 

3 R. M. Knox. 

4 Dr. Nicholas C. Knox. 

5 James P. Knox. 

6 Sarah Knox. 

7 S. Y. T. Knox. 



Joseph Knox and Descendants. 211 

1 John' L. Knox, eldest son of Dr. Absalom Knox, was born 
April 22, 1834, in Gibson county, Tenu. 'When an infant he was 
carried in his mother's arms txj see his great-grandfather, Joseph 
Knox. In his fifteenth year he went with his parents to Panola 
county, Miss. In the Confederate Veteran, June, 1897, we find 
the following regarding his service in the army : 

"John L. Knox enlisted in the Panola Guards in March, 1861. 
At the close of a 3'ear the time of his enlistment, ho was dis- 
charged. He helped to organize Yates Battery, and was chosen 
first lieutenant. He did hard service with the battery, but re- 
signed at Yicksburg in 18G3. Joining W. G. Middleton, who be- 
came captain of a cavalry company, he was given the same second 
position he had in the battery. The company became a part of 
the Eighteenth Mississippi Cavalry, under Forrest. Middleton 
was killed July 15, 1864, and Lieutenant Knox succeeded him. 
He was paroled at Ganesville, Ala., May, I860, having served 
four years and two months in actual service. He was never 
wounded, never a prisoner, never missed a roll call without a 
lawful reason, nor a battle in which his company was engaged." 

Mr. Knox seemed very much interested in the history and 
genealogy of the Knox family. His name will be found among 
those who have assisted in this work ; also in the list of those who 
have taken copies of the Knox Tree. In a letter to the writer, 
dated March, 1898, he says, "I am the oldest living i-epresenta- 
tive of my grandfather's descendants, and was personally ac- 
quainted with all of his children, and nearly all of his grand- 
children, and will risk the suspicion of appearing egotistical by 
saying that I do not believe that the grand Tree that you have 
built will suffer by engrafting upon it the few additional limbs 
that we have sent in. As far as my knowledge and information 
extend the Knox family have been conspicuous for their honesty 
and integrity. I have been a Knox myself for nearly sixty-four 
years, and have never known one of the name to prove recreant 
to his trust. I have known nearly every one on my grandfather's 
limb, and in that long line not a single drunkard appears, and I 
never heard or knew of an oath l>eing sworn by one of the name. 
All the Knoxes I have known are disposed to look on the bright 
side of things, and to see a rainbow in every storm." 



213 The Kjcox Family, 

Mr. J. L. Knox represented his county in the Legislature in 
1898. He was married twice; first wife Sophoria Moore; second, 
Mathella Bergland. He lived in Batesville, Miss; died there in 
December, 1899 

Issue by First Wife. 

1 Douglas® Knox, of Little Rock, Ark., married Carrie Wil- 
liamson. 

Issue. 
1 Hattie^ Knox. 

2 Chalmers® Knox married T. Luter. 

Issue. 
1 Jessie^ L. Knox. 

3 Pat® Knox married Corinne Smart. 

4 Absalom® Knox. 

5 Lloyd® Knox. 

6 Moore® Knox. 

7 Hall® Knox. 

8 Sallie® Knox: 

9 George® Knox. 

10 Randall® Knox. 

11 Winnie® Knox. 

The last five named are children of the second wife. 



2 William^ H. Knox, second son of Dr. Absalom Knox, was 
born February 13, 1836, in Tennessee. He removed with his 
parents to Mississippi in 1848; married Mary Deaton. He left 
his wife and one child to assist in organizing the First Mississippi 
Cavalry; was lieutenant of Company "C" in 1861. He served 
in Armstrong's Brigade, Jackson's Division, taking an active 
part in the battle of Shiloh,- in April, 1862. In June following 
he assisted in raising another company of cavalry ; was elected 
second lieutenant; was promoted to first lieutenant of Jarni- 
gan's Company, Ballentine's Regulars; was severely 'vounded in 
May, 1864, before Atlanta, but returned from the hospital to his 



Joseph Knox axd Descexdaxts. 213 

command the following summer. He was with Hood at Nash- 
ville and Franklin, closing with the battle of Selma. He is a 
member of the Methodist Church. Address, Frederick, Miss. 

Issue. 

1 Boyd'' Knox, of Stockdale, Texas. 

2 Willie® Knox married James Shaw. 

Issue. 

1 Clara' Shaw. 

2 William" Shaw. 

3 Lela" Knox married Lenox Lamb. 

Issue. 

1 Elgenia^ Lamb. 

2 Corrinne' Lamb. 

4 Virgil'^ Knox. 

5 Kate° Knox. 

6 Cordie'^ Knox. 

7 Clara® Knox. 

8 Margaret® Knox. 

9 Cyde® Knox. 
10 Eoy® Knox. 

SECTION II. 

3 Kichard" M. Knox, third son of Dr. Absalom Knox, was 
born March, 1838; was ten years old when the family moved to 
Mississippi. When twenty years of age he returned to Milan, 
Tenn., obtained a situation in the first drygoods store opened 
there, and remained imtil January, 1861. Going back to Missis- 
sippi, he clerked in a store in Batesville until June, when he 
enlisted with his brother in the First Mississippi Cavalry. He 
served under Van Dorn and Forrest, and was in all the battles in 
which his command was engaged, including Shiloh, Holly 
Springs and Corinth; was at Atlanta, Franklin and Nashville, 
and helped to cover Hood's retreat. At Selma, Ala., three- 
fourtiis of his command was captured, but he made his escape. 



214 The Knox Family. 

He had two horses shot from under him, but was never wounded 
nor taken prisoner. 

At the close of the war he made a corn crop on a piece of land 
bought during the war with Confederate money. After finishing 
his crop he went to Memphis, secured employment as salesman 
in a wholesale drygoods house, remained there until July, 1871, 
having saved money enough to go into business for him- 
self. 

He is now in the mercantile business in Pine Bluff, Ark. ; 
president of the E. M. Knox Company, Knox Block, 225 and 227 
W. Barraque Street, corner Chestnut. 

He is one of the directors, also vice-president of tho Citizens* 
Bank, Pine Bluff, Ark. Mr. Knox has always taken great inter- 
est in the reunions of the veterans; was at Birmingham, Hous- 
ton and Richmond. His daughter. Miss Sue Knox, was chosen 
maid of honor for her State at the reunion in Richmond. 

The reunion in Dallas, in 1902, was the jiinth in succession 
he had attended. He is one of the founders of the Confederate 
Home, in Little Rock. In the beginning he. Col. J. B. Trulock 
and the late Capt. John Murphy spent a week at the State Capi- 
tol, urging the Legislature to make an appropriation, and finally 
got them to levy one-fourth ef a mill for pensioning indigent 
soldiers and the building of a home, each of them contributing 
one hundred dollars personally. While commander of the J. Ed. 
Murry Camp at Pine Bluff, he is also brigadier-general of the 
Second Arkansas Division, V. C. V. Having been a private 
during the entire war, he selects his staff from those who served 
as privates. He is a Methodist. He has been married twice. 
His first wife was Martha Sparks; second wife, Victoria Tucker. 

Issue. 

1 Sallie® Knox married M. S. Hastings, of Savannah, Ga. ; in 
the lumber business. 

Issue, 

1 Fannie^ Hastings. 

2 Aline^ Hastings. 

3 Richard^ Hastings. 



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2 Lawrence* Knox married Ada Delgado. 

Issue. 
1 Jamie^ Knox. 

3 Albert* Knox. 

4 Helen® Knox married J. T. Bradford, Weatherford, I. T. ; 
in ice business. 

Issue. 

1 Eichard^ K. Bradford. 

5 Sue* Knox married Mr. Wherry. 

6 Wade* Knox. 

7 Mittie* Knox. 

8 Richard* Knox. 



4 Dr.** Nicholas C. Knox, fourth son of Absalom Knox, M. D., 
married Henrietta Craigan. He enlisted in the Seventeenth 
Misisissippi Regiment, commanded by Col. W. S. Featherstone, 
McLaw's Division. He took part in all the great battles in the 
Army of Virginia in which his command was engaged. He lost 
his right arm on the second day of the battle of Grettysburg; was 

captured and confined as a prisoner on Island, off the 

city of New York, for several months before being parolled and 
sent into the Confederate lines. He was never at home after his 
enlistment until he was discharged. He returned to Mississippi; 
taught school ; read medicine, getting a diploma from a medical 
college at Nashville, Tenn. He has represented his county in 
the Legislature; is now a practitioner of medicine in Reynolds, 
Miss. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church. 

Issue. 

1 Howard* Knox married S. R. Curtis. 

Issue. 
1 ^lary^ Knox. 
2^Amy' Knox. 

2 Mark* Knox, Water Valley, Miss. 



210 The Kxox Family. 

3 Florence" Knox married J. A. Eamy. 

Issue. 
1 Howard^ Eamy. 

4 Abner® Knox. 

5 Endora® Knox. 

G Au^'stus" Knox. 

7 Roscoe® Knox. 

8 John" Knox. 



5 James' P. Knox, fifth son of Absalom Knox, M. D., mar- 
ried, first, Sallie Shaw; second time, Reola Toney. He was just 
eighteen 3'ears old when the war broke out. He joined Pettis's 
Flving Artillery; was mustered into service in May, 1861, at 
Eureka, Miss. On June 28th they went to Memphis, thence to 
New Madrid, Mo., and soon afterwards were put in Bowen's 
Brigade, under General Price. His captain, Hudson, was killed 
at Shiloh. The battery was known as Hudson^s Battery, and 
later as Walton's. At Port Gibson, Miss., this battery fired the 
first gun on General Grant's army after crossing the Mississippi 
River. They were captured at Vicksburg and parolled. He 
remained at home a few weeks; then went to parole camp at 
Enterprise, Miss., where he was soon exchanged and assigned to 
General Forrest ; was surrendered at Gainesville, Ala. He now 
lives in Houston, Texas. He is a Presbyterian. 

Issue. 

1 Hunter" Knox. 

2 William" Van Knox. 

6 Sarah' Knox, daughter of Absalom Knox, M. D., married 
Cruse Fowler ; was a Presbyterian. 

Issue. 

1 Fannie" Fowler. 

2 Endora" Fowler married R. B. McEntire. 

3 Harrison" Emmit Fowler. 

4 James" Knox Fowler. 

5 Samuel" Fowler. 

6 Calvin" Houston Fowler. 



Joseph Knox and Descendants. 2K 



SECTION III. 

7 SamueP Y. T. Knox, youngest son of Dr. Absalom Knox 
and wife, Sarah Higgins Knox, married, first, Lizzie Harrison, 
who died shortly after marriage; had no children. His second 
wife was Mary Gray, of an old North Carolina Presbyterian 
family, some of whom were signers of the Mecklenburg Declara- 
tion. She was born in Mississippi; her father was a North 
Carolinian. He was only two and a half years of age when his 
father died; is a deacon in the Presbyterian Church. 

Mr. Knox has been in business with his brother, R. M. Knox, 
in Pine Bluff, Ark., the past twenty-five years or more. He is 
secretary and treasurer of the R. M. Knox Company. He is 
greatly interested in the genealogy and history of our Knox 
family, ordered a copy of the Knox Tree shortly after seeing one 
at the Nashville Exposition, in 1897. He sent us a copy of the 
Confederate Veteran, containing group picture of the six broth- 
ers; also assisted in having research made in the records of Soot- 
land. He has twx) sons: 

1 Samuel® Knox. 

2 Charles® Absalom Knox. 



2 Richard* Knox was the second son of John^ Knox and wife, 
Mary Knox. The record does not give his wife's name; says 
there is (or was) a daughter of his in Arkansas, nothing more. 
We would be pleased to learn something of her desceadant.>;. if 
any. 

3 Joseph* Knox, son of John^ Knox and wife, ^lary Knox, 
marrieil Eveline Templeton. 

Issue. 
1 James^ Finley Knox married Martha Blackinship. 

Issue. 

1 Joseph® Knox. married a Thomas. 

2 David® W. Knox. 

3 James® Finley Knox, Jr. 



218 The Knox Family. 

2 Mary^ E. Knox married Flem McLesky. 

Issue. 

1 Cora® McLesky. 

2 Lorensey* McLesky. 

3 G.« McLesky. 

4 Sarah* McLesky. 

3 David° Knox married Mary Boyd. Address, Columbia, Tex. 

Issue. 

1 Finis* S. Knox. 

2 Emma* Knox married Marvin Harvey. 

1 Grace' Harvey. 

2 Keron'^ Harvey. 

3 Charles* Knox. 

4 Fannie* Knox. 

5 Abner* Knox married W. S. Rey. 

Issue. 
1 Clifford' Knox. 

6 Virginia* Knox. 

7 Luther* Knox. 

8 Ivia* Knox. 

9 Van* H. Knox. 
10 Alpha* 0. Knox. 



4 Margaret^ Knox married Thomas Benson. 

Issue. 
1 T.* Benson. 

5 John^ H. Knox married Xannie Agnew. Address, Strewn, 
Texas. 

Issue. 

1 James* F. Knox. 

2 Joseph* B. Knox. 

3 David* F. Knox. 



Joseph Kxox and Descendants. 219 

(') William^ Knox married L. L. Hatley, St. France?, Ark. 

Issue. 

1 EtheP Knox. 

2 William* Knox. 

3 Imo* Knox. 

4 Ada® Knox. 

5 Leonard* Knox. 

6 Zera* Knox. 

7 Sarah^ Knox married James Benson. 

8 Koberf* Knox. 



4 Mary* Knox, daughter of John Knox and Mary Knox, mar- 
ried Eufus Ayers. 

Issue. 
1 Eufus" Ayers, Jr. 

5 Sarah* Barr Knox, daughter of John Knox and Mary Knox, 
married William Atchison. 

Issue. 

1 Jennie^ Atchison married John Childress. 

2 William" Atchison married Emma Childress. 

3 SamueP- Atchison married Eebecca Bradberry. 

4 Annie" Atchison married James Adams. 

5 Nannie" Atchison married Thomas Adams. 



6 Eliza* Knox, daughter of John Knox and Mary Knox, mar- 
ried Joseph Thompson. 

Issue. 

1 James" Thompson. 

2 Mary" Thompson married T. A. Fatten. 

3 Annie" Thompson married J. C. Talley. 

4 George" Thompson married Annie Payne. 

5 Melinda" Thompson married John Oakley. 

6 Eufus" Thompson. 

7 William" Thompson. 



220 The Knox Family. 

7 Melinda* Knox, daughter of John Knox and Mary Knox, 
married Adley Armstrong. 

Issue. 

1 Annie' Armstrong married Wade Richardson. 

2 Laura^ Armstrong married Bugg Bradberry. 

3 Martha^ Armstrong married T. Heskins. 

4 Sarah^ Armstrong married T. Williamson. 

5 Mary'* Armstrong married J. Saunders. 



8 William* C. Knox, son of John Knox and Mary Knox, mar- 
ried Bettie Williams. He died or was killed during the civil war. 

Issue. 
1 SamueP Knox, Fall Creek, Tenn. 



2 Thomas^ Knox was a son of Joseph Knox, St., one of the 
sons of John Knox, emigrant. 

3 Delia^ Knox. 

4 Mary^ Knox. 

5 Squire^ Knox. 

(Of these four children of Joseph Knox, Sr., we know nothing 
positively. W. E. Knox, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., thinks one of 
the daughters married an Andrews; cannot tell what became of 
her.) 

6 Joseph^ Knox, Jr., son of Joseph Knox, Sr., had several 
children. William and John were two of them (we learn from 
Mr. J. L. Knox, Batesville, Miss.). 

From W. E. Knox, Murfreesboro, Tenn., we understand that 
some of his grandchildren lived in Cannon county, Tenn. One 
named Jim Knox, Address, Burt, Tenn. 

SECTION IV. 

7 Benjamin^ Knox, son of Joseph^ Knox, Sr., was born in 
North Carolina; moved to Tennessee while a single man, pos- 
sibly when quite young. He became one of the leading farmers 



Joseph Knox and Descendants. '221 

of his day in Eutherford county; was in the war of 1812. lie 
and descendants were Presbyterians. They were all members of 
the Whig party in politics, till the downfall of that party; since 
then all have been Democrats. Several of the son's of Benjamin 
Knox served in the Confederate States Army. He married M.ir- 
garet McKnight, raised five children : 

1 Ool. Joseph* Knox (who served four years in tiie civil war), 
married ]\Iit Ealem. 

Issue. 

1 Eeps^ M. Knox married . Address, Dyer Station, 

Tennessee. 

Issue. 

1 Joe" Knox. 

2 Frank® Knox, 

2 E. T.^ Knox married Fannie Whit€. Address, Millon, Tenn. 

Issue. 
1 Carrie Knox married McKnight. 

3 Partheny" Knox married John Smith. Address, Trimble, 
Tenn. 

Issue. 

1 Edgar« Smith. 

2 Lucy« Smith. 

3 Latimore® Smith, 

4 Minnie® Smith. 

5 Lydie® Smith. 

6 Ina® Smith. 

4 P.= S. Knox married Mollie Trawick. 

Issue. 
1 John® Knox. 

3 James* C. Knox married Sallie A. Eion. Address, Fruit- 
land, Tenn. 

Issue. 

1 Belle^ Knox married David McKnight. 

2 Delia"^ Knox, 



922 The Knox Family. 

3 F.^ Knox married Fannie Cwnce. 

4 J:- p. Knox. 

(Some of this family live in Trenton, Tenn.) 



3 Eleanor* Knox married John Dillen, Milton, Tenn. 

Issue. 

1 Thomas^ Dillen. 

2 William^ Dillen. 

4 Mary* Knox married Thomas Yaught. 

Issue. 

1 Ersula^' Yaught married Dennie Black. Eesides in Milton, 
Tenn. 



5 Benjamin* F. Knox, 3-oungest son of Benjamin Knox and 
Margaret McKnight, married Xancy B. Leech. He served in 
fhe C. S. A. from 1861 to 1865. Address, ¥ilton, Tenn. 

Issue. 

1 Alcenia^ A. Knox married A. P. Givens. Milton, Tenn. 

Issue. 
1 Urskin" Givens. 

2 Joe^ Ivy Knox married Lee James. Milton, Tenn. 

Issue. 

1 A." F. Knox. 

2 Charles^ Knox. 

3 Elsie" Knox. 

4 Birdie** Knox. 

3 R."^ E. Knox married Bettie Rhodes. Milton, Tenn. 

Issue. 

1 Gertie' Knox. 

2 Auza' Knox. 

3 Mattie" Knox. 

4 William' Homer Knox. Milton, Tenn. 



Joseph Knox and Descendants. 223 

Samuel'* W. Knox, son of Joseph Knox, Sr., by a second wife. 
He lived and raised a family in Cannon county, Tenn. He died 
August, 188G, aged seventy-two years. He was married three 
times: First, Eliza Dill; second, Mary Mabry; third, Nancy 
Alexander. By first wife, one daughter, Jane Knox; by second 
wife, five children : 

1 J.* H. Knox. 

2 J." B. Knox, Porterfield, Tenn. 

3 Jim* Knox. 

4 Mis? S. E.* Knox married ^Ir. Fathera. 

Issue. 

1 Walter^ Fathera. 

2 SamueP Fathera. 

5 W. E.* Knox, a prominent shoe dealer in Murfreesboro, 
Tenn.; married in 1886. His wife died in 1887. 

By third wife Samuel W. Knox had : 

1 Mary* Knox. 

2 S.* A. Knox. 

3 R. W.* Knox. 

4 Jessie* Knox. 

5 Emma* Knox married McElroy. Died leaving five children. 



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CHAPTER XI. 
Benjamin Knox and his Descendants, 

EXJAMIX^ KN^OX, youngest son of John^ Knox, emi- 
grant, and wife, Jean Gracy Knox, was born in Rowan 
connty, N. C. In his mother's will, which can be found in an- 
other chapter, he is mentioned as- her "well-beloved youngest 
son." He and his brother, Samuel Knox, she appoints executors 
of, the will. He married Rebecca Simmons. From the original 
sketch gotten up by Rev. James Knox, we learn that this Ben- 
jamin Knox went to Georgia. We have not succeeded in tracing 
fully this branch, or gathering much information regarding it. 
Mrs. Jennie V. Harris, of Port Gibson, Miss., a great-grand- 
daughter of Benjamin Knox, sends data for the branch to which 
she belongs. Mr. Robert Lusk, of Nashville, Tenn., for another 
branch. We learn there was also a daughter who married a 
Mr. Ponder. 

Since the foregoing was written, we have received from Mr. 
Lusk a copy of his application for member.ship to the Tennessee 
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, by right of 
lineal descent from Benjamin Knox, who (as he learns from the 
State records of Xorth Carolina) was born in North Carolina 
in 1759, and died in Rowan county, N. C, about 1842. 

The said Benjamin Knox assisted in establishing American 
Independenee, while acting as a private in the North Carolina 
Militia. 

The following are references to the authorities : 

"Benjamin Knox, Rowan county, N. C, was placed on pension 
roll of the United States, for service in the Revolution, on June 
25, 1833. See Senate Documents at Capitol, Raleigh, N. C. 
See also his name on Census of Pensioners for 1840, page 180." 

From tbe above dates Benjamin Knox lived to the age of 
cight^'-threc years. 



Benjamin Knox and Descendants. -i'ir) 

Issue. 

1 John^ Knox, son of Benjamin Knox and Kobocca Sim- 
mons, married Mary Caffcry, an annt of ex-Senator Donelsoii 
Caffery, of Louisiana. Her mother was Mary- Donclson, a sister 
of Rachel Donelsoii, who married Andrew Jackson.) It seems 
that this John^ Knox lived in Claiborne count v. Miss., until 
shortly before his death he moved' to Tennessee. He had only 
two children, as we learn. 

1 Sarah* Knox, the eldest, was born in Claiborne county, Miss. 
When five years old they moved to Tennessee; her father died, 
and she was taken by General Jackson and his wife, who was her 
great-auni, and raised by them at the Hermitage, ne«r ^^ashville, 
as a beloved daughter (but not adopted). She came as a young 
lady with them on their memorable trip to New Orleans, when 
that city turned out to honor the grand old hero. She spent a 
3-ear with her uncle, Donelson Caffery, in Louisiana. Then came 
to Judge Van Dam's, who married an aunt, and from his home 
she was afterwards married : first to a Mr. Newton, next to Dr. 
Arva Wilson, of Ohio (a splendid man) ; third to Dr. George W. 
Sevier, of Tennessee, a grandson of General John Sevier, of 
Revolutionary fame, afterwards Governor of Tennessee for three 
terms; a noble man in every respect. 

Mrs. Harris writes that h^r parents enjoyed a long and useful 
life, and both much loved and respected by all who knew them, 
a power in the church and community. While not possessing 
vast wealth, yet no family stood higher; also said that their de- 
scendants would all always uphold and do honor to the name of 
Knox and Sevier. 

The following, found in Wheeler's History of North Carolina, 
since the above was written, may be of interest to the Sevier 
family : 

General Sevier descended from an ancient family in France, 
whose name was Xavier. His father, Valentine Xavier, was born 
in London, and emigrated to America; settled on the Shenan- 
doah, in Virginia, where John Sevier was born about 1740. He, 
John S., married a Miss Hawkins, by whom he had six children. 
He came to East Tennessee (then a part of North Carolina) 



226 The Knox Family. 

about 1769. His first wife died in Virginia in 1779 ; he married 
Miss Catharine Sherrill, of whom it is truly and handsomely 
said, "She could outrun, outjump, walk more erect, and ride 
more gracefully and skillfully than any otlier female in all the 
mountains round about." A few years previous to this marriage, 
whilst in defence of the Watauga Fort, Capt. Sevier discovered 
a young lady of tall and erect stature coming with the fleetness 
of the roe towards the fort, closely pursued by Indians, and her 
approach to the gate cut olf by the enemy, who doubtless were 
confident of a captive or of a victim to their guns and arrows; 
but turning suddenly she eluded her pursuers, and leaped the 
palisades at another point, and fell into the arms of Capt. John 
Sevier. This remarkably active and resolute woman was Miss 
Catharine Sherrill, who later became the wife of Sevier, and 
was the mother of ten children, who could rise up and call her 
blessed. 

There is a monument erected in the Nashville Cemetery to the 
memory of General John Sevier. The beautiful marble shaft 
is illustrated with an appropriate design neatly carved, repre- 
senting two swords crossed, surmounted by a wreath, and be- 
neath an Indian tomahawk and quiver of arrows, emblematic of 
the triumph of our arms under the heroic auspices of General 
Sevier. Underneath this device is the following inscription : 

Sevier, 
Noble and successful Defender of the early settlers of Tennessee; 

The first, and 

For twelve years Governor; 

Representative in Congress ; 

Commissioner in many treaties with the Indians. 

He served his country faithfully for forty years, 

And in that service died. 

An admirer of patriotism and merit unrequited erects this cenatoph. 

The following is an extract from an old letter, dated Septem- 
ber 14, 1886, from Mrs. Sarah Knox Sevier, Port Gibson, Miss., 
to Mr. John T. Knox, San Bernardino, Cal., referring to the 
Knox family : 



Benjamin Knox and Descendants. 2-27 

"My grandfather's name was Benjamin Knox ; he was from 
Korth Carolina ; don't know my grandmother's maiden name. 
My father's name was John; don't know whether he had any 
brothers; had two sisters; one married a Mr. Ponder. My 
father died in Tennessee about seventy years ago. I once visited 
an uncle of my father's in Rutherford county, Tenn.,. his name 
was Joseph Knox ; he had quite a family of son's and daughters, 
one named Benjamin. He once had a visit from a cousin who 
lived at Xew Madrid, Mo., who was a grandson of Uncle Joe's. 
I thought his name was James. 

"This is all I can tell you about the Knox family save tlmt my 
father and James K. Polk were cousins. James K. Polk's 
motlier was Jane Knox, daughter of James Knox, my grand- 
father's brother, and they were all from Xorth Carolina. I hope 
this may give }'Ou some little light on the subject. If my brother, 
William Luckey, was living he could give you more satisfaction. 
My heart warms towards the name of John Knox. 

"We had six children, three sons and three daughters;- two 
sons dead, one living, Andrew Jackson Sevier. My oldest daugh- 
ter, Mrs. Isldvy K. Dunbar, is a widow with two children, one eon 
and one daughter, in St. Louis. My next, Mrs. Jennie V. Harris, 
and two children live with me. My youngest daughter, Eliza, 
married William Jeffins, in Madison Parish, La., ten miles above 
Yicksburg. I was seventy-seven years old last March." 

Mrs. Sevier's father, dying while she was so young, left her 
with but little knowledge of her Knox relatives, which she 
always deplored. Her six children were all by the last husband, 
Dr. Sevier. 

Issue. 

1 George^ P. Sevier, died of pneumonia in the civil war. 

2 Mary" Katherine Sevier married Robert Dunbar. 

Issue. 

1 Rol)ert« J. Dunbar, of St. Louis. 

2 Mrs.^ X. B. Kanning, of Missouri. 



228 The Kxox Family. 

3 Jennie^ V. Sevier, daughter of Sarah Knox and Dr. (icKr-v 
Sevier, married, first, George Clarke, and had one ;-on, (.u'tu-ge 
Sevier Chirke. She married, second time, A. W. llariis. liy 
whom she had one daugliter. Sadie Knox Harris. Addre>>. Von 
Gibson, Miss. Mrs. Harris is proud of lier Kn<:>x l»]ood: lias 
assisted in getting np the record of this family. Her ilauglucr. 
Sadie, stood Xo. 1 at school, and took the scholarship niudal. 

•i Andrew'^ J. Sevier married Columbia S. Dobvns. 

Issue. 
1 Sarali*^ Knox Sevier. 
3 Columbia'^ Sevier married William Utz. 

Issue. 
1 Merric' Utz. 

3 Andrew*^ J. Sevier, Jr. 

4 Annie*^ C. Sevier married Mr. Agee. 

Issue. 
1 Willard^ Agee. 

5 Jennie*' V. Sevier married Fred Youns. 

6 Mary^ Kate Sevier married a Ward. 

7 Ada« E. Sevier. 



5 Eliza^ Sevier married William Jefferies. 

Issue. 

1 Xavier^ Jefferies. 

2 William® Jefferies. 

3 Evan« Shelby Jefferies. 

4 Mary® D. Jefferies. 

6 William^ Knox Sevier, died from cold contracted in camp. 



2 Col.* William Luckey Knox, son of John^ Knox and wife, 
nee Mary Caffery, and brother to Mrs. Sarah Knox Sevier, was 
born in Mississippi. He lost his father when quite young ; when 
one year old was taken by his mother to Tennessee, and became 
an inmate of the family of General Jackson, whose wife was his 



Bexjamin Knox and Descendants. 229 

mother's aunt. He was named for one of the Luckeys, near 
them in North Carolina, and who it is thought had inarried his 
father's sister. When thirteen years of age, he ran away from 
the Hermitage and went to Louisiana, the southern part. He 
took great interest in political matters. It was wliile living with 
General Jackson, listening to the conversation of Houston, Ben- 
ton, Governor Call, E. W. Foster, John Bell and other great men 
of that day, that he received his first inspiration for politics. 
He remembered perfectly the appearance of both Jackson and 
General Lafayette, w'ho visited General Jackson while he lived 
there. 

William L. Knox was a man of fine intellect, energetic and 
resourceful, though lacked ambition; could have gained any 
position he desired. When but a youth of twenty he was elected 
colonel of his regiment in the Mexican War. He served as 
sheriff of his parish twelve years; was for many years a member 
of the Legislature. He was grand master of the Grand Lodge 
of the State of Louisiana. He acquired a fortune, but lost it 
all by the war. The old home in Louisiana is still desolate. 

From a letter dated April 11, 1881, addressed to Mr. J. R. 
Jackman, Louisville, Ky., he mentions having four brothers, 
Benjamin, Eobert, John and Samuel. We can learn nothing of 
these brothers or their descendants. Col. William L. Knox also 
says his father was from North Carolina; had also lived in 
Georgia. Says he was a great friend of General Jackson, and 
took part with him in all his big horse races and chicken fights, 
etc. He speaks of himself as a Democrat ; is proud to know that 
every Knox, Walker and Polk did their duty in the civil war, 
and were as faithful to our beloved South as the old set of 
Knoxes were to their country in Revolutionary times. 

Col. William* L. Knox married . 

Issue. 

1 James'^ M. Knox, Agee, Texas. 

2 William^ L. Knox, Jr. 

3 Jesse' Knox. 

4 John' Knox, Dallas, Texas. 

5 Calhoun-' Knox, Dallas, Texas. 



230 The Knox Family. 

SECTION II. 

2 Nanc}'^ Knox, daughter of Benjamin Knox and wife, Re- 
becca Simmons Knox, married Moses Oldham. 

Issue. 
1 Louise* Oldham married William Duncan Clardy. 

Issue. 
1 Elizabeth^ Clardy married Alfred H. Lusk. 

Issue. 

1 Robert® Lusk, lawyer of Xashville, Tenn., married Miss 
Binnie Briggs, daughter of Dr. Charles S. Briggs, of Xashville, 
Tenn. 

2 William" C. Lusk, Calcutta, India.. Mr. Robert Luck had 
research made in the records at Raleigh, N. C, for Revolutionary 
service of Benjamin Knox (the result of which has been men- 
tioned under head of Benjamin Knox.) 



3 , daughter^ of Benjamin Knox, married a Mr. Pon- 
der, as we learn from an old letter written by Mrs. Sarah Knox 
Sevier, whose name also appears among the descendants of Ben- 
jamin Knox. Have not as yet found any of the Ponder family. 



CHAPTER XII. 
Mary Knox and her Descendants. 

MARY^ KXOX, only diiughter of John^ Knox, emigrant, 
and wife, Jean Gracy Knox, married a Rosebro. Their 
grandson, Thomas D. Rosebro, thinks his name was James. 
They lived in Rowan county, N. C. (We have made several at- 
tempts to secure a more complete record of this branch ; also 
sketch of the Rosebro family, but with rather poor success.) 

Several of the old Rosebro family were buried in the old 
Statesville graveyard, near the First Presbyterian Church. They 
all died in the prime of life, from the dates on the tombstones. 

Issue of Mary- Knox and James Rosebro: 

1 Robert^ Rosebro. 

2 Margaret-^ Rosebro. 

3 SamucP Rosebro married a Miss Dickey ; had five children : 
1 Mary* Rosebro. 

8 Margaret* Rosebro. 

3 Thomas* D. Rosebro married 

Issue. 

1 Mary^ E. Rosebro. 

2 Cora^ Hunter Rosebro. 

4 Sophona* Rosebro. 

5 Samuel* Rosebro. 



•i John^ Rosebro, son of Mary^ Knox Rosebro, daughter of 
John^ Knox, emigrant, married Miss Dickey, a sister to his 
brother Samuel's wife, we think. 

Issue. 

1 James* Rosebro married ; left Rowan county, N. C, 

in 1825 for Illinois, where he died, leaving two children: 

1 Dorcas* Rosebro. 

2 John* Rosebro. 



23i The Kxox Family. 

2 Milton* Ro&ebro, a great-grandson of John Knox, emigrant 
from Scotland, was born in Eowan county, N". C. ; lived in the 
old Third Creek neighborhood. At the time the little old origi-' 
nal sketch of the Knox family was gotten up by our uncle, the 
Eev. James Knox, about 1845 or 1846, Mr. Rosebro became in- 
terested also in tracing the line of descent, and it was under- 
stood some years ago that there was a copy of that sketch in the 
Eoscl)ro family. 

Milton* Rosebro married a Miss Belk; had ten children: 
1 Lucy^ Rosebro married Mr. Weatherly. Address, Greens- 
boro, X. C. 

Issue. 

1 Mary^ Weatherly. 

2 Jessie*' Weatherly. 

3 John« Weatherly. 

4 Dudley^ Weatherly. 

5 Arthur*' Weatherlv. 



2 Rufus-"' Rosebro married MoUie Hyde; also of Rowan 
county. X. C. ; reside at Cleveland, X. C. He is in the mercan- 
tile business. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church. 

Issue. 

1 Clarence" Rosebro. 

2 Blanche*' Rosebro. 

3 Walter*' Rosebro. 

4 Janio*' Rosebro. 

3 Dan-"' Rosebro married a Miss Rosebro, daughter of his 
cousin. Thomas D. Rosebro. He has been the postmaster at 
Cleveland. X. C. for a number of years. 

4 Mary^ Rosebro. 

5 Fannie^ Rosebro. 

Blanche"' Rosebro married Bailey, of Winston, X. C. 

Issue. 

1 Fred" Bailey. 

2 Maurice" Bailey. 

3 Regenald" Bailcv. 



Mary Kxox and Descendants. 233 

4 Frank® Bailey. 

5 Emma'' Bailey. 

6 Charley® Bailey. 
7. Blanche" Bailey. 

7 Annie"^ Eosebro. 

8 Robert^ Rosebro. 

9 Laura^ Rosebro married Andrew Fleming. 

Issue. 

1 Emma® Fleming. 

2 Ralph® Fleming. 

3 Mary® Fleming. 

4 Xettie® Fleming. 

5 Charlie® Fleming. 

10 Diekev Rosebro. 

SECTION II. 

3 Adolphus* Rosebro, son of John^ Rosebro, who was a grand- 
son of John^ Knox, emigrant, was born 1811 in Upper Rowan; 
married in 1837 Mary Belk, a sister to his brother Milton's wife. 
He was a merchant in Statesville, N. C. ; died of consumption in 
1868, and laid to rest in the old Statesville graveyard. His par- 
ents died when he was only twelve years old. 

Issue. 
1 Rev.5 J. W. Rosebro, D. D., only son of Adolphus Rosebro, 
is, as may be seen, the fifth in line of descent from John Knox, 
emigrant. He is now President of the Assembly's Home and 
School, in Fredericksburg, Va.; also pastor of a Presb}-terian 
Church there. He married a Miss Smith, daughter of Rev. B. M. 
Smith, D. D.; had six children: 

1 Rev.® John R. Rosebro, of Baltimore. 

2 Benjamin® Rosebro married Miss Watson, of Richmond. 
He is principal teacher in the Assembly's Home and School. 

3 Cortlandt® Rosebro. 

4 William® Lucy Rosebro. 

5 Frank® Bro\\Ti Rosebro. 

6 Henrv® Rosebro. 



234 TiiK Kxox Family. 

2 Mary^ Ix)U Koj^bro, only daughter of Adolphuii Eosebro, 
married Dr. W. M. Campbell, of Statesville, X. C. Dr. Camp- 
bell died leaving her with two children : 

1 Loula® Campbell. 

2 Dr. Eeulx?n^ A. Campbell, a surgeon in the United States 
Navv. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

Other Families of Knox. 

THE author has, in her extreme research, had communication 
with several families of the Knox name, wh'o, as far as we 
have learned, are of other lines of descent, and consequently can- 
not be entered on our Knox Family Tree. Still it may not Ix} out 
of place to make mention of some of them. As time goes on, and 
additional light is obtained it may be found that at least some 
of these families belong to our Knox Tree. 

I. 

Mr. Robert T. Knox, of Fredericksburg, Va., has accumulated 
quite extensive information on the family of Knox. He sa}-s his 
Knox ancestors came from Renfrew, Scotland, or thereabouts, 
some time between 1745 and 1750, after the last Stuart uprising. 
He thinks all the Knoxes trace back to the old Baron Knoxes, of 
Ranfurly and Knox in Renfrewshire, Scotland. He has a pic- 
ture of the old castle, Ranfurly, the ancient home of the old 
barons. It is in ruins and has been for two hundred years, and 
has been a quarry for all the neighborhood to haul stone from. 
The authorities have now stopped that, desiring to preserve what 
is left of the old castle. 

This Mr. Knox has a Knox pedigree or tree sent him by Sir 
Uchter, John Mark Knox, Earl of Ranfurly, now Governor of 
New Zealand ; was at that time a member of the Queen Victoria 
household. This Tree, he sayis, traces the Knox to Kenneth III. 
On the left hand side is Queen Victoria's pedigree. On the right 
from "Maldred, Prince of the Isles," younger brother, to Duncan 
King of Scotland. It is four feet by three feet. (We would be 
much pleased to see this old pedigree.) He has a book. Genea- 
logical Memoirs of John Knox and of the Family of Knox, by 
the Rev. Charles Rogers, LL. D., London. Printed for the 



23G The Knox Family. 

Grampian Club, 1879. (He kindly loaned us this valuable 
book.) 

Some of Mr. Knox's people, before coming to America, were 
ship builders. One, Alexander Knox, was captain of a ship, and 
was wrecked in Chesapeake Bay, or yon "Duck Puddle," as he 
designated it, and for a time was persuaded by his three brothers 
here to stay ashore, but became restless, and was lost at sea ; un- 
married; never heard of again. 

Mr. Knox says their family record was burned at the battle of 
Fredericksburg, and consequently there are some missing links. 
His great-grandfather was William Knox, of Windsor Lodge, 
Culpeper county, Va., who married Susannah Fitzliugh. His 
grandfather was Thomas Fitzhugh Knox, M. D., and his father's 
name Thomas Fitzhugh Knox. 

His great-grandfather took no part in the Revolution. He 
sympathized with the government, he thinks. This old William 
Knox had a brother, Robert, of Charles county, Md. William 
had three sons and six daughters. Mr. Knox and brothers were 
in the Confederate army throughout the war. He was captain 
of Company "C," Thirtieth Regiment, Virginia Infantry. His 
brother James Soutter Knox was captain of Company "B," 
called Fredericksburg Grays. One brother, Alexander Bell 
Knox, died from a wound. The rest all came out unscathed. 
He was captured two days before the surrender, and carried to 
Johnson's Island, Lake Erie. 

From another letter I find that the above William Knox mar- 
ried Janet Somerville, from near Jedburgh. Some of her people 
were at or near Renfrew. It seems that four brothers of this 
family came over to America, and became merchants, and owned 
landed estates in Virginia. 

(There may be errors in this sketch, it was gathered from so 
many lengthy letters.) 

In September, 1902, he says, "My family now consists of one 
daughter with me. My son Robert, in U. S. A., in "Montana, 
served his time in Philippines; first lieutenant now. My son 
W. Uchtred Knox, was also a soldier in Spanish war, after being 
mustered out, went to South America, and was paralvzed and 
died.*' 



Otiiki! I'amilii:s or Kxox. :i'\'i 



II. 



^Ir.-. I^lla Knox Kcoikt, addro!?!; 151(!, Jo^'pli Sinct. N'tw 
Orlean.-; La., gives tlie following of Ikt ranii]\ : 

"Oui- imnietliatc braiK-h ol' Knox come:; hore from Fairlirlil 
l)i>nict, S. C. Our grcat-grantlfatlier was Janio;; Knox, who 
iiiarriiMl a ^Ii^^ Christie. She died leaving an only son, Janic?, 
our giandi'atlicr. There were born by a second marriage. K<>berr, 
Kli/ca and ^Matilda. James Knox, our grandfather, married 
Miss Sarah Lewis. Thoir children were, Susannah. Patience, 
Amanda. Xaney, James Christie, Robert Lewis, Xathan King, 
our father and John Wilson. James Knox, our grand I'ailier. and 
faniilv removed from South Carolina to Sicily Island. La. From 
there to Franklin county, Miss., near the Homochilto River. 
Grandpa was elected to represent his county in the convention 
that formed the first constitution for the State of Mississippi. 

"Our maternal great-grandfather, of Fairfield District, S. C, 
was William Lewis. William J, Knox, brother to Mrs. Keener, 
is president of the bank of Baton Rouge, La." 

From Mr. King H. Knox, son of William J., of Baton Rouge, 
we have the following ^additional data : 

Eliza Knox, daughter of James Knox, who married a Christie, 
married Xathan King. Matilda Knox, another daughter, mar- 
ried Gray Briggs. 

Of the family of James Knox, who married Sarah Lewis : 

1 Susannah Knox married H. S. Pickett. One son, Robert 
Lewis Pickett. 

2 Patience Knox married H. S. Pickett; issue, John Hiram. 

3 Amanda Xancy Knox married Capt. D. R. Cain. 
Xathan King Knox married Miss Bryan. 

Issue. 

1 William James Knox, Baton Rouge, married Miss Green; 
one son. King H. Knox. 

2 Ella Knox married C. Keener; no children. 

3 Xathan King Knox married Miss Bell; four children. 



238 The Kxox Family. 

Ill; 

The Family of Charles Kxox, the Hatter. 

Mrs. Mary Robinson Little, granddaughter of Charles Kiiox, 
the hatter, furnishes the following sketch of that family: 

"The Knox family to which we belong are of the Scotch clan 
of MacGregor, which came from Glasgow, Scotland, about 1200, 
and settled in North Ireland, around Londonderr}'. They took 
the Knox crest and motto, 'Noveoet Proficio,' meaning, "I pro- 
ceed and pro&}3er.' The clan constantly intermarried, but not 
with the native Irish, so that they are still of almost pure Scotch 
blood. 

"A family characteristic which still exists is that the men are 
six feet high or over, of sturdy, rugged build, and the women 
stout and of the blonde type. There were a number of titles 
among the Knoxes in Scotland, and their name is woven in the 
history of the shrine of Renfrew. Charles Knox, the 'Father of 
American Hatters,' was the son of Charles and Margaret Black 
Knox. Charles, Sr., lived near Londonderr}', Ireland, and was 
a coppersmith, who earned a good living for himself and family. 
But attracted by the stories of wealth in the new world, they 
came to America in 1827, the sailing vessel making the trip in 
six weeks. Their old Irish homestead is still standing on the 
shores of the beautiful 'Loch Swilly,' meaning 'Lake of Shad- 
ows,' just as it did two hundred years ago. I have visited the 
old homestead; it is most beautifully situated. It is a long, 
wide house of white-washed stone, with shady veranda facing the 
water, and across the road are neat rows of tenants' cottages. 

"The family were all staunch Covenanters, or Scotch Pres- 
b}'terians. From such a home came Charles Knox, Sr., and wife 
Margaret, with their six children : 1 Catharine, born 1800 ; 2 
Ann, 1806; 3 Peter, 1809; 4 Edward, 1812; 5 Charles, 1818, 
and 6 Sarah, 1822. Between Edward and Charles were twins 
who died." 

Of the children the following is known. 



Other Families of Kxox. li^) 

1 Catherine married William Williams, and had five children, 
1 Jane, Samuel, Charles, Mary Ann and William. Catherine 
died in Brooklyn, X. Y., in 18TT. 

2 Ann married Patrick Murphy and lived in Philadelphia, 
where she died in 1852. She had four children: Frances, born 
1842; then t\nns, Michael and Margaret, born 1844, and Wil- 
liam, born 184G. The two boys went into the civil war, and have 
never been heard of since. 

3 Peter died unmarried near Utica, X. Y., about 1845. He 
was a well-known lawyet-. 

4 Edward married twice; his first wife was Jane Canning, 
who died 1848. She had no children. In October, 1850, Edward 
married Eliza Brown, of Philadelphia, Pa., and had one daugh- 
ter, Eliza Margaret, born 1851. Edward was a fine coppersmith 
like his father, and made all the large boilers in X^ew York city 
for the hotels, steamers and stores. He became very wealthy, 
and died 18G3. 

5 Charles married Hannah M. Hyslop in 1838; had two 
children, 1 Mary A., born in 1840, and 2 Edward M., born in 
1S4'3. 

Charles Knox died in 1895 in X"ew York city, where he had 
l>eeii the head of the hat business for fifty years. Like his 
brothers, he was known for his honesty, uprightness and Chris- 
tian integrity. His observance of the Sabbath was very strict. 
When he first went into business many stores along Broadway 
kept oi>en a few hours on Sunday morning, and the owner of a 
neighl>oring store said to him, "Charlie Knox, why don't you 
open on Sunday? I made five hundred dollars yesterday, and 
you're a fool to let the chance slip." Mr. Knox replied, "I'll 
never keep open an hour on the Lord's day," and he never did. 
Years afterward that same friend came to beg a quarter to keep 
him from starving. When the war broke out Charles' son Ed- 
ward was one of the^first to enlist. 

Charles' wife belonged to ^an old Virginia family. She died 
in 1888, a few weeks before their golden wedding, after an un- 
usually happy married life. The daughter, Mary, married, in 
1863, Hannibal Eobinson, by whom she had four children, 
Charles, Mary, Florence and Greorge. 



240 The Knox Family. 

G Sarah, the youngest child of Charles Kno.x, Sr., and Mar- 
garet Black, married John Leegare, a French Canadian, in 1840. 
They had nine boys, John. David, Charles, Josepli, Edward, 
George, William and Harry, twins; an infant died at birth. All 
are scattered and the majority now dead. Sarah died 1858 in 
New York city. 

The family of Blacks to which Charles, Sr.'s, wife Margaret 
belonged, have been for generations, and still are, linen makers 
in Ireland, and own large flax farms near Londonderry and 
Belfast. This bran"?!! of the Knox family have very old letters 
and papers; also the old Knox Bible of 1716. They say that 
these old papers show that the Knox family from Glasgow and 
Edinburgh, and from the north of Ireland, are of one family; 
were persecuted on account of their religion, some of them hav- 
ing to leave in the night. 

A newspaper clipping of August, 1895, sent me, contains an 
obituary of Charles Knox, from which we copy the following : 

"Charles Knox, the well-known New York hatter, died at his 
home, No. 46 West Tenth Street. 

"Mr. Knox was born in Ireland in 1818; when fifteen years 
old, he with his sister, came to this country on a sailing ship. 
He landed at Wilmington, Del. He learned the hatter's trade 
with Leary. In 1840 he started into business for himself, in a 
.shop at 110 Fulton Street. As his business increased he re- 
moved next to the old Sun building. No. 128' Fulton Street. In 
1854 he removed his store to Fulton and Broadway, where one of 
his stores is still. The. Knox hats became known all over the 
continent. In 1878, Mr. Knox turned the management of his 
business over to his son, Col. Edward M. Knox, and in 1888 
retired from active business life. Mr. Knox was- knowTi alike 
for his enterprise and his kindly genial ways; was extremely 
charitable, but gave quietly and without ostentation. For a 
number of years his home was on Dutch Street, later in Houston 
Street, and in 1856 he removed to the present home. The 
family also have a handsome country home in Sullivan 
county." 



Other Families of Knox. i.'U 

IV. 

The inquiry has been made whether the ]\Ir. Knox, Provident 
Koosevelt's new Attorney-General, United States, is of the same 
line of Knox we have been tracing. The address of his brother, 
Dr. S. B. P. Knox, of Santa Barbara, Cal., was given me, and 
he sends the following data : 

"My branch of the Knox family is Scotch-Irish. My grand- 
father, Eev. William Knox, came from Ireland to America in 
1800. His children settled principally in Pennsylvania and 
Ohio." 

(From this we infer that they are not descendants of the 
John Knox, emigrant progenitor, who came over about 1'7'40.) 

V. 

E. S. Knox, M. D., of Stonewall, Miss., informs us that his 
grandfather, Isaac Knox, was born and raised near Chester, 
S. C. Some years after his marriage he and fa'mily, wirh his 
brother, Patton Knox, moved to Carrol county, Ala., located near 
Eidgeville, where, after some years of residence, they died and 
were buried. He had six sons and three daughters: 1 Benjamin, 
2 Everett, 3 John, 4 James W., 5 Isaac, 6 Thoma^, r Mary, 
8 Susan, and 9 Sallie. After the death of Isaac Knox and wife 
all the family moved to Central Texas, except his father, and 
Susan, who had married a Dr. Boone, of South Carolina. His 
father, after living a few years in Alabama, moved to Mississ'lp^ji 
and located near Winona. He died in 1888, leaving three sons, 
E. S., F. J., and W. I. Knox. 

VI. 

A Mr. William S. Knox, of Washington City, D. C, says that 
branch of the Knox family located in what is now Portsmouth, 
N. H., in 1632. The emigrant's name was Thomas Knox. This 
William S. Knox is president of the George W. Knox E\])ress 
Company; G. Vernon Knox, vice-president, and John 0. Knox, 
treasurer. 

(We know nothing more of this family.) 



242 The Kkox Family. 

VII. 

Mr. Archibald Alexander Knox, of Dime Box, Texas, writes 
March 24, 1903 : 

"My great-grandfather is as far back as we have any know- 
ledge. His name was Archibald Knox. When and where he was 
born we have no record. His marriage to Martha McLelland was 
in November, 1780. Their children were, Sarah J., Robert 
Lowry, William Alexander, and Eebecca A., all of which are 
now dead. William Alexander was my grandfather. His birth 
was April 15, 1808, in Williamsburg District, S. C. His father 
died when he was a child ; also his mother before he was grown, 
consequently he knew little of his familj history. William A. 
Knox married Letha Ann Bates, January 1, 1834, in Mississippi. 
Their children were, Richard Elison, Mary Jane, Martha Re- 
becca Ann, William Alexander, Eugene Davis, Rol>ert x\rchibald 
and Elvira Adaline. These are all dead except Rol>ert Archibald, 
who is my father, and William Alexander, my uncle. My grand- 
father moved to this place in 1851. ]\Iy uncle has an old book 
with the name of Samuel Knox on the fly leaf, dated some time 
in 1700, at some academy in South Carolina, if I am not mis- 
taken. We do not know what relation he was to us." 

YIII. 

Mr. J. R. Jackman, of Louisville. Ky., sends the following 
sketch of the Knox family to which he l>olongs. beginning with 
James Knox, emigrant. 

(The elderly lady who saw the _voung rebel soldier, near Bards- 
town, Ky., was his mother. They were living in that country at 
that time.) "Sketch." 

James Knox, from near Belfast, County Antrim. Ireland, 
emigrated to America, with nvost of his family, and landed af 
Charleston, S. C, about the year 1705. He married Elizabeth 
Craig, to whom were born twelve children, six sons and six 
daughters; their names were, William, the eldest, Mary, John, 
James, Elizabeth, Margaret, Samuel, Ann, Jane, Joseph, Robert 
and Susan, the latter was born on the ocean, while on their voy- 




J. R. jacKmaN, Louisville, k/. 



Other Families of Knox. x*43 

age to America. Mary and John remained in Ireland, but John 
subsequently came over and joined his father's family, at or near 
Charleston, S. C. Mary remained in Ireland, and married a 
Mr. Polock (Polk), and none of her family was ever known to 
come to America. James Knox, with the other members of liis 
family, settled in South Carolina, near Charleston, and remained 
there until after the close of the Kevolutionary War. Up to the 
commencement of the war the most of the members of the family 
had married. ^lary had married, as above mentioned. 

William married in South Carolina (lady's name not remem- 
bered. John married Elizabeth Oaff, of South Carolina. James, 

Jr., married in South Carolina ; not known. Elizabeth 

married Samuel Morrow, of South Carolina. Margaret married 
Isaac Oaff (brother to John's wife). Ann married Jacob Sutton, 

of South Carolina. Samuel married in South Carolina; 

name not known. Jane married James Gaston, of South Caro- 
lina. Joseph was blind, and never married. Rol>ert married 
Elizabeth Gill, of Charleston, after the war was over, when about 
twenty-two years old. Susan died in infancy. 

James Knox. Jr., was killed, during the war, whib at home 
on furlough, by a Tory, while in his corn-crib shelling a grist of 
corn for meal for his family. The Tory lived near l)y, and saw 
James at home, and took advantage of him while in his corn-crib 
and shot him. 

After the Revolutionary War was over, the Knox families, 
except William Knox, the brothers and sisters, with thvir wives 
and husbands, with the old mother (James Knox, Sr., having 
died), with their children, emigrated to Kentucky Territory, 
part of Virginia, and into Kentucky '"they came," ''over hill and 
dale." to a place then known as Crab Orchard Station. There 
they all sojourned for a wliile. They landed there al>out the year 
ITST. After this the families began to move to such parts of 
the new country as suited them best, to mnke permanent homes. 
Samuel Knox. Samuel Morr-ow, Isaac Oaff and Jacob Sutton, 
together with their mother Knox, removed to Tennessee, and 
.settled near Duck River, in Bedford and Rutlu-rford coun- 
ties: 



244 The Knox Family. 

James Gaston, with his family, moved to Indiana (then a ter- 
ritory), and settled in or near Vincennes, but little was known 
of them after their departure 

John Knox removed to Pulaski county, Ky., and there -setiled. 
This about 1791. 

Eobert Knox, with his family, removed to a fort, where Frank- 
fort, the capital of Kentucky now is, the year Kentucky was 
made a State of the Union, in the year 1792. He built a log 
cabin just outside the fort, the first house built in Frankfort, 
where the State House now stands; this was his first residence. 
Later he removed to a farm near there, where he raised an excel- 
lent family of children to manhood and womanhood. 

Eobert Knox, in one of his trips to South Carolina, about the 
year 1810, to settle up his wife's estate there, persua'ded his 
brother William to let his daughter Xellie come home with him 
to Kentucky on horseback, to which Xellie agreed to do if her 
father would consent. So the arrangement was made, Robert 
having a fine extra horse to bring to Kentucky, and, with side- 
saddle on the extra horse, Miss Xellie mounted, and rode away 
from her native State with her uncle Eobert. Over a long jour- 
ney they rode until Frankfort, Ky., was reached. x\ftcr a long 
stay with her uncle in Kentucky, she concluded to visiu her uncle 
Samuel Knox, in Tennessee, which she did, and while there, her 
cousin William Knox (Samuel's son) fell in love with his cousin 
Xellie, and she reciprocated, and they were married. So cousin 
Xellie never went back to her native State, South Carolina. 

During the civil war, while Bragg's army was in Kentucky, 
near Bardstown, one of Eobert Knox's daughters (an elderly 
lady) was living in that neighborhood then (1862). She asked 
some Tennessee soldiers if any Knoxes were in that command, 
to which one of the soldiers replied, "Yes; I'll bring one to see 
you," which he did. She asked him about his Knox family in 
Tennessee. She told him about her cotisin Xellie, and her trip 
to Kentucky, horseback, and the young soldier said, ''I've heard 
grandma tell that a thousand times." So it was certain he was 
one of the family. When he left, he said he would return and 
bring a cousin Sutton (who was also a rebel soldier) to see his 



Otiikk Families oi K.nux. 21-3 

found relative; but the tv\)v\ army moveil away that iMirhi, ami 
tlie young soldiers wore never seen again. 

The Knoxes and Suttons were tlien (18()2) still in 'i'ennes-<v, 
in liutherford and Bedford counties, near Duek liivcr — the de- 
scendants of Samuel Knox and Jaeolj Sutton. 

The mother, emigrant, who wunt with her children into Ten- 
nessee, remained there, and dieil ai the remarkable age of one 
hundred and three years. All of her sons and sons-in-law wore 
soldiers in the Kevolutionary army and fonght in the battles of 
Cowpens and King's Mountain; were in the service about seven 
years to the close of the war. All came out alive e.vcept James, 
who was killed by a Tory. Kobert was only about fourteen years 
old when he enlisted as a soldier. He received a wound in the 
battle of Cowpens, by a spent ball, in the knee, which did not 
affect the joint, and never had it taken out, and it remained there 
to his death. He said it was an honor to wear it, as he had re- 
ceived it in a just causo. 

John Knox was a major in the service. Major Knox died in 
Pulaski county, Ky., and his widow and family removed to Galla- 
tin county, Ky., where they mostly settled; some of them, how- 
ever, removed to Indiana, where they .-ettled. It is remarkal)le 
that some of those Indiana Knoxes, when the civil war (18(51) 
came on, came over to Kentucky, and enlisted in the robel army, 
and fought in the interest of the South, the home of their ances- 
tors. After the war was over (18()5) they came back to their 
Indiana home, and settled down as good citizens of the United 
States. Such is life ! 

Robert Knox said that his father and General Henry Knox, of 
Eevolutionary fame, were cousins. General Henry Knox was 
first Secretary of War of the United States. He was with Gen- 
eral George Washington during the devolution. 

Mv. J. R. Jackman says he has only one living brother, Judge^ 
John S. Jackman. an eminent- lawyer of Louisville. Ky.. and 
two living sisters, Mr.-^. ^Martha Ann Peake (widow) and Miss 
Mollie Jackman, all of T^)uisville. 

There was another brother who died in 1000. leaving two sons. 
Edwin and James P.. Jr. 



246 The Knox Family. 

So far, we have not succeeded in connecting this branch of 
Knoxes with our line, though the family names indicate that 
they were of the sa"me line originally. William, John, James, 
Samuel and Rol>ert are names common to both families. 

An old letter, dated 1881, from Col. W. L. Knox (on Benja- 
min branch of our Knox Tree) to Mr. Jackman seems to almost 
give the connecting link between the families. 

Col. Knox said while he was living with his mother at the 
"Hermitage," General Jackson's home in Tennessee, when about 
thirteen years old, there was quite an old man, named Samuel 
Knox, came to the Hermitage to see his mother, he being a rela- 
tive of his father. Mr. Jackman says that Samuel Knox, of Ten- 
nessee, was his grandfather's brother. Just what relation Col. 
Knox, or father, and this Samuel Knox were cannot be jdeter- 
mined. 

IX. 

Mr. R. C. Knox, Monticello, Ark., writes, April 10, 1901 : 
''I am always interested in anything that pertains to the Knox 
name. Do not know that I can give you any information that 
will be of any benefit toward getting up your family tree. I am 
from Chester, S. C, left there when I was quite a lx)y ; so I am 
not well posted as to my line of descent. My great-grandfather 
was killed by the Tories during the Revolution, leaving two sons, 
James and John. John was my grandfather, and my father was 
his oldest son James. We always claim kin with the R. M. and 
Samuel Knox families of Pine Bluff, but are unable to trace the 
connection. 

"I hope, if this communication does not prove of any assist- 
ance, it will at least assure \X)u that we are jointly interested in 
one thing, and that is the name Knox." 

X. 

"Descended from a family which emigrated to America from 
the neighborhood of Belfast, early in the eighteenth century, 
was Henry Knox, major-general in the Revolutionary Army. 
Born July 25, 1750, he was apprenticed to a bookseller at Bos- 



Otiiku Famii.iks of Knox. <;i7 

ton; he subsequently connnonced business in the Siuno city. 
When war with the mother country broke out, he was r.pjxtinted, 
in his twenty-fifth year, a colonel of artillery. During the 
progress of the war he greatly distinguished himself, i.nd gained 
the esteem and confidence of General Washington. On the ter- 
mination of hostilities? he was appointeil Secretary of War. He 
died October 25, 1806. Major-General Knox was remarkable for 
his literary tastes and religious earnestness."' ^ 

We learn that the histories of the State of Tennessee pay that 
the first house in Ivnoxville, Tenn., was built by a man named 
White, and the town was named for "General Knox."' General 
Knox's family came first to the Bermuda Islands, and later to 
Boston. 

XI. 

Mrs. Eugene Daniel (wife of the Rev. Daniel, of Lewisburg, 
W. Va., late of Raleigh, X. C), who is a line.al descendant o£ 
John Knox, the Reformer, furnishes the following data with 
regard to her line of descent. 

"John Knox married, March, 1564, Lady Margaret Stuart 
(his second wife) by whom he had three daughters, Martha, Mar- 
garet and Elizabeth. Elizabeth married John Welch, minister 
of Ayr. Their daughter Louise married David Walker, and their 
daughter Annie married Rev. James Witherspoon, of Yester, 
Scotland. Their son was John Witherspoon, one of the signers 
of the Declaration ; his son David married the widow of Abner 
Nash. They had one son, John Witherspoon, my grandfather. 
My father, his son, was John Knox Witherspoon, So you see my 
line is unbroken. Mrs. Eugene Daniel." 

(There is mention made of this line in Chapter III.) 

XII. 

Mrs. Oscar Barthold, 802 Waco Street, Weatherford, Texas, 
sends the following concerning that family : 

' Life and correspondence of Henry Knox, Major-General, by Franci« 
S, Drake. Boston. 1873. 



248 The Kxox Family. 

"I am a lineal descendant of one William Knox, of Pennsyl- 
vania (Revolutionary times). He emigrated, with his wife, Mary 
Friar, to East Tennessee. Owned land in both Monroe and 
Eoane county, Tenn. He removed from theri? to Knox county, 
wliore he died about 1839, a very old man. 

"Issue of William and Mary Friar Knox : 

1 William Knox married Mary Lowe. 

2 John Knox married Louise Bond. 

3 James Knox married Elton Crider. 

4 Matthew Knox married Betsy Bond. 

5 Mary Knox married William Ross. 

G Margaret Knox married Andrew McOampbcll. 
7 Jane Knox, my grandparents, married Richard Hill, 
of Xorth Carolina. 

"Their son Matthew Hill married Eliza Rodgers. I, their 
daughter, Annie Eliza Hill, married Oscar Barthold." 

XIII. 

Miss Rebecca Horn, of Marion, Ind., sends data, hoping to 
trace out the connection. She says : 

"My mother's father, Hosea Knox, emigrated from Greenville, 
K. C, to Spartansburg, Ind., about sixty-five years ago. His 
father's name was William, who had a brother named Allison. 
Hosea Knox had four brothers, William, Redie, James and 
Adam, and two sisters, Lavina and Mary. 

"William Knox married Margaret Moor, in Warren county. 
They settled later in Edgecombe county, near the Pitt county 
line. 

"My grandfather, Hosea Knox, had nine children, Charlotte 
(my mother), Lavina, Mary Ann, John, James, Harriett, Sam- 
uel Hosea, Margaret and Martha, and forty grandchildren. My 
parents are still living (this January 22, 1904), and they 
expect to celebrate their sixtieth wedding anniversary January 
27th. 

"Some of my cousins have gained a national as well as local 



Othkr Familiks 01- Knox. 24^) 

roputation in the political world; and twd unclr- were (luiie 
pi-oniinciit nin^ic teacher?. 

"N'alentine Knox Horn, niv oldest brother, is wi-U known nil 
over the United States wlierewr grain and rice are j)roduced. and 
in Mexico and Canada. He represents Gan, Scott & Co.. a large 
mannfacturing firm in Richmond, Ind. While visiting in I..OS 
Angeles. Cal., I met a Mr. Knox, who gave me your a<l(lress, and 
showed nic the Knox Family Tree." 

(We have l)een expecting a fuller record of this family, which, 
if lo hand, might enable lis to enroll them on the Knox Tree.) 

L.VTEH. — ^liss Horn writes: "My grandfather's sisters married 
brothers, Jesse and Willis Whitley." 

XIV. 

Mr. Rol>ert J. Knox, of Burnet, Texas, writes: 

"My great-grandfather was Samuel Knox, who lived in Meck- 
lenburg, N. C. The date of his coming I have been unable to 
learn. His sons were James, John, Joseph, Samuel, Henry and 
^fatthew. He also had daughters, how many I am unable to say. 
My grandfather, Joseph Knox, born 1794, came from North 
Carolina to Tennessee, I think, about the year 1815, or 1816, and 
settled in Giles county, near Pulaski, where my father, George 
S. Knox, and his four brothers, Joseph M. Knox, James G. 
Knox, John G. Knox, and Henry M. Knox, were born and reared 
until grown. 

"James G. Knox died in the civil war, John G. Knox moved 
to Missouri l^efore the war, and raised a large family at Brook- 
lin. Mo.; Joseph M. Knox now lives at Campl>ellsville, Tenn., 
and Henry M. Knox lives at Bertram, Texas. My father, George 
S. Knox, lived at Lynnville, Tenn., on the farm of his father (or 
a portion of it, having added to it) until his death in 1902, at the 
age of seventy-seven years. I have three brothers and two sisters, 
all living: Joseph W. Knox, at Hillsboro, TexSs; Samuel A. 
Knox, and George E. Knox, at Lynnville, Tenn. ; Mrs. A. J. 
Camerson, Pulaski, Tenn.; Mrs. L. E. Allen, Ijewisburg, Tenn. 



'^50 The Knox Family. 

"I came to Texas when twenty years old ; remained here four 
years, then spent twelve years in California ; married in Cali- 
fornia Miss Libbie Burroughs, from Hudson, N. Y. After seven 
years she died, leaving me one little girl, Helen K. ; was mar- 
ried again to Miss Nellie Lanion, of Burnet, Texas, who also died 
in 1903, leaving an infant three months old, George Bruce La- 
mon Knox. 

"As to occupation, nearly all of our family have been farmers. 
My grandfather was a hatter by trade, and I am not sure but his 
father before him was. I, as you see, am a pharmacist; have 
followed this profession all my life, except two years teaching, 
and my boyhood was spent on the farm in Tennessee. I have 
always been told that our family came formerly from the North 
of Ireland, and were of the old Scotch-Irish stock. 

"Eeligiously, we are nearly all Presbyterians. 

"Henry M. Knox, of Bertram, Texas, had two sons, Joseph E. 
(one son, Granville Knox), and Walter S., two children, Lillian 
and Walter Knox. 



Concerning the Knox Family Tree. 

For the benefit of those who have not seen our Knox Tree, we 
supplement the bare mention of it in the Preface with the fol- 
lowing explanation. It is a genealogical chart or drawing of th^ 
line of John Knox, emigrant, of Chapter IV., and his descen- 
dants, so far as we have succeeded in tracing them. We have 
enlarged and added to it until the latest copies now measure 
some 42 x 60 inches, containing about 2,300 names, many dates, 
post-office addresses, etc.* Some twenty (or more) different 
States of the Union are represented on it. 

We hate made a number of copies of the Tree, which have 
found their way into Knox homes in more than half of these 
several States, for the descendants are scattered from the Adi- 
rondacks to the Pacific ocean. 

All the names that appear on the Tree are recorded in the 
book, with a few additional ones recently gotten in. 



Other Families or Knox. '^')l 

List of Those who have takex Copies oe tiii: Knox TuiiK. 

Mrs. Cortlolia Barringer, Charlotte, X. C. Absalom Knox 
branch. 

Mrs. Sarah Scott. Charlotte, N. C. Absalom Knox branch. 

Mr. John M. Knox, Salisbury, N. C. Absalom Knox branch. 

]\Irs. Dovie Coit, Salisbury, X. C. Absalom Knox branch. 

Mrs. Fannie Harrison, Mill Bridge, X. C. Jolin Knox l)ranch. 

Miss Minnie Gouger, Statesville, X. C. John Knox branch. 

Mt. John K. Goodman, Mt. Ulla, X"^. C. John Knox branch. 

^Ir. George C. Goodman, Mooresville, X. C. John Knox 
branch. 

Rev. R. W. Culbertson, Mebane, X. C. John Knox branch. 

Mrs. Mattie Alexander, Sherman, Texas. John Knox branch. 

Rev. William Wood, D. D., Statesville, X^ C. Absalom Knox 
branch. 

Mr. Robert S. Gould, LL. D., Austin, Texas. Absalom Knox 
branch. 

Mrs. X'ancy Y. Matthews, Xavasota, Texas. Absalom Knox 
•branch. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Lyle, Crawfordville, Ind. Absalom Knox 
branch. 

Mr. Horace Anderson, Xevv York City, X. Y. Absalom Knox 
branch. 

Mrs. H. E. Knox, Xewton, X. C. Absalom Knox branch. 

Miss Carrie Knox, X'^orth Carolina. Absalom Knox branch. 

Mr. T. J. Knox, Cleveland, Tenn. Samuel Knox branch. 

Hon. John B. Knox, Anniston, Ala. Samuel Knox branch. 

Mr. Chris. L. Knox, Corsicana, Texas. Samuel Knox branch. 

Mr. Willis Knox, Shawneetown, Mo. Willi^im Knox branch. 

Mrs. D. C. Hope, Shawneetown, Mo. William Knox branch. 

Mr. Ben. Allen Knox, Cleveland, X. C. William Knox branch. 

Mr. T. J. Witherspoon, Charlotte, X. C. John Knox branch. 

Mr. J. L. Knox, Goldendale, Wash. William Knox branch. 

Mr. John T. Knox, San Bernardino, Cal. William Knox 
branch. • 

Mr. T. J. McKamy, Cleveland, Tenn. Samuel Knox branch. 



252 The Kxox Family. 

Mr. Walter S. Knox, Charleston, Tenn. Samuel Knox branch. 
^Ir. Ilenrv T. Knox, Charleston, Tenn. Samuel Knox branch. 
^Ir. J. W. Knox, Jacksboro, Texas. Samuel Knox branch. 
Mr. J. D. Knox, Whittier, Cal. Samuel Knox branch. 
i\Ir. John Knox, Sigourney, Iowa. William Knox branch. 
Mr. Jesse Brandon, Martinsville, Ind. John Knox branch. 
jMr. S. Y. T. Knox, Pine Bluff, Ark. Joseph Knox branch. 
Mr. R. M. Knox, Pine Bluflf, Ark. Joseph Knox branch. 
j\rr. J. L. Knox, Batesville, Miss. Joseph Knox branch. 
Mrs. V. K. Maddox, San Jose, Cal. James Knox branch. 
Mrs. Dora R. Henry, Rome, Ga. Samuel Knox branch. 



COXCERNIXG THE KxOX MONUMENT. 

It is thouglit very appropria^ and desirable to erect a monu- 
ment oyer the grave of our ancestors, John Knox, emigrant, and 
wife Jean Knox, in Thyatira graveyard, Rowan county, N". C, 
where lies the dust of the first Knox of the line in tills country. 
The spot marked by a small tombstone, now so dark and moss 
grown that a passer-by would never know whose grave it was. 

Both inscriptions are on the one stone, copies of v,diich have 
already been given. 

Efforts are being made toward raising the necessary funds for 
the monument. Some contributions have been sent in, and con- 
sidering the number of descendants there should be no difficulty 
in raising a sufficient amount. We very much wished to succeed 
with it in time to have-a cut of the new stone, with a list of con- 
tributors, in the history, but have to give up that idea, though 
still hope to see a neat, respectable monument erected to their 
memory in the near future, one that will be a credit to the name. 

All persons wishing to aid in this praiseworthy undertaking 
will please forward contributions to the writer, at Wood Leaf, 
N". C, to Miss Bertha Knox, Salisbury, N. C, or to Miss Fannie 
Goodman, Mt. Ulla, N". C. 



CHAPTER XIV. 
Notes on the Family of Kxox jhom Scottish Reoisteus. 

IN the Prefaeo bare mention i^ made of tlie research in the 
records of Scotland. We employed a genealo<;i#t of Edin- 
burgh to make the investigation, hoping therein' to trace back 
the line or family of John Kno.x of Chapter IV. of ihc?e pages, 
and link on to some of the old lines of Scotland. 

Not as yet succeeding in this, he sends several parcels of data, 
some 125 pages in all, as he finds the Kno.x name in ihe various 
Scottish registers. We copy a few pages from each parcel, that 
those who aided in the search may see a sample of tlie material 
sent; and only this much, as we do not consider it of sutlicient 
interest to us to insert the whole. 

NOTES FROM GLASGOW COMMISSARIAT DEEDS. 

1604. January Ki. Registration of Contract dated at Wester Gartschoir, 

14 October, 1003, between Thomas Aitken, in Lunduziat. Mar- 
garet Knox, his spouse, and James 'Aitken, tlieir son. on the one 
part, and James Auchinleck, in Dowein, Katherine Sym, his 
spouse, and Margaret Auchinleck, their daughter, for the mar- 
riage of James Aitken and Margaret Auchinleck. (Vol. 2.) 

1605. July 20. Bond by Thomas Fleming in Corslipillis to John Knox, 

lawful son of the deceased William Knox, in Erskein. for 100 
merks, dated at Renfrew 13 December, 1594. (Vol. 2.) 
1612. August 11. Bond by Rorie Makcloyd, of Dunvcgan, to Andrew 
and John Knoxes, burgesses of Renfrew, for 116 merks, dated 
at Edinburgh, 11th March, 1612. (Vol. 3.) 

1612. November 20. Bond by Andrew Angus, notary in Glasgow, to 

Marcus Knox, merchant burgess of Glasgow, for £60. dated at 
Glasgow 8th March, 1G09. (Vol. 3.) 

1613. February 11. Bond by William Grewar, merchant in Gla.«gow. to 

John Knox, burgess there, and Janet Snype, his spouse, for £42, 
dated at Glasgow 1st May, 1612. (Vol. 3.) 
1611. February 18. Bond by Walter Miller, in Garscube, to John Knox, 
in Bornis, for £8, dated at Renfrew 8 July, 1610. (Vol. 4.) 



254 The Kxox Family. 

1G15. December G. Bond by David Montgomery and otliers to John 
Knox, mariner burgess of Glasgow, and Janet Snype, liis spou-e, 
for certain victual, dated 19 September, 1G14. (Vol. 5.) 

IGIG. February 19. Bond by Adam Knox, burgess of Renfrew, to Walter 
Parkhill, in Craigiescloch, for 115 marks, dated at Paisley 1st 
July, 1G07. (Vol. 5.) 

IG18. July IG. Bond by Mr. Thomas Knox, parson of Glendrumoch, to 
Alexander Park, sometime of Balgray, for £4 sterling, dated at 
Paisley 25 October, IGIG. (Vol. G.) 

IGIG. November — . Bond by William Knox, of Selvieland, to William 
Algro, of Easter Walkingshaw, for £120, dated at Easter Walk- 
ingshaw 20 May, 1G17. (Vol. 0.) 

1G19. May 3. Bond by George Alexander, son to John Alexander, mer- 
chant, to William Knox, son of Marcus Knox, merchant, for 
£200, dated at Glasgow 3 June, 1G18. (Vol. G.), 

1G19. October 1. Bond by David Lyon, merchant burgess of Glasgow, to 
Marcus Knox there, for 200 merks, dated 27 November. 1G12. 
(Vol. 6.) 

1G21. January 22. Bond by Sir James Edmestonne, of Duntreth, and 
his cautioner, to John Knox, in Bornes. for 50 merks. dated at 
Kilpatrick 14th April, 1G20; also another Bond by Alexander 
Douglas, in Mylnetown, to the same for 38 merks Gs. 8d., dated 
at Kilpatrick 9 July, 1G20. (Vol. 8.) 

1G22. July 23. Bond by Michael Brown, merchant burgess of Glasgow, 
to Marcus Knox, merchant burgess there, for £120. dated at 
Glasgow 28 September, 1G05. (Vol. 8.) 

1622. August IG. Bond by William Hucheson. cordiner in Glasgow, to 
the said Marcus Knox for £28, dated at Glasgow 24 February, 
1616. (Vol. 8.) 

1622. December 3. Bond by Alexander Knox, apparent of Selvieland, to 

William Govane, bonnet maker, burgess of Glasgow, for 100 
merks, and with him are Marcus Knox, merchant burgess of 
Glasgow, and William Knok, merchant there, as cautioners. 
Dated at Glasgow 19 December, 1G20. (Vol. 8.) 

1623. August 28. Bond by Marion Callendar, widow of John Lennox, in 

Capenstone, in the parish of Campsie, to Helen Knox, widow of 

William Witherspoon, tailor burgess of Glasgow, in behalf of 

Janet Witherspoon, her daughter, for £20, dated at Glasgow 20 

September, 1617. (Vol. 9.) 
1623. December 18. Bond by John Knox, of Ranfurlie, to James Dougall. 

in Sawmerstonn, for £100, dated 20 April, 1G23, Uchter Knox 

being a witness. (Vol. 10.) 
1643. January 24. Registration of Obligation by John Knox, in Dunti- 

glennan, to George Lang in Clachan. of Kilpatrick, for 19 merks 



Notes fkom Scottish KixiisTcus. •^'-"i". 

10/, dated at the said C'luchan .S .Tuly, 103!). Witnesse?*, .John 
and Walter Colynhonn, sons to Kilniardony. (N'ol. 11.) 

1029. May 29. Registration of Ohligntion by GeDifie Dowgal, in Hous- 

tonheid, and John Dougald, in Nether Mains, to .John Knox, of 
Ranfurlie, to pay to him certain goods, etc., in terms of a De- 
creet obtained in the said matter, dated 17 February, 1(128. 
(Vol. 12.) 

1030. April 27. Registration of assignation by Alargaret and Helen 

Hill, lawful daughters of the deceased. Vivian Hill, merchant 
burgess, of Glasgow, and Harry Brysonn, merchant burgess of 
Glasgow, spouse of the said Margaret, and Helen Ilutchieson. 
their mother, as tutor to the said Helen, narrating that Tljomas, 
Bishop of the Isles, has by his bond dated 13 -June, 1020, bor- 
rowed from the said Vivian Hill, in behalf of them, his said 
daughters, 1,000 merks, and Alexander Knox, of Selvieland, 
then fiar thereof with the deceased Marcus Knox, burgess of 
Glasgow, George Knox, of Kincowell, in Ireland, and James 
Finlay, were cautioners with him; and seeing the sr.id Alexan- 
der Knox, of Selvieland. Thomas Knox, lawful son of the said 
Marcus, and James Finlay have paid up tlic l>ond. they assign 
the same to them, dated at Glasgow 20 May, 1030. (Vol. 12.) 

NOTES FROM PARISH REGISTERS. 
I. Glasgow. 

Baptisms, etc., 1011-1707. 

1011. October 28. Thomas Knox, Marion Greinleis, lawful daughter 
named Elisabeth. Witnesses, Vivian Hill, James Greinleis. 

101 1. November 10. Patrick Knox and Elizabeth Allassonn, a daughter 

lawful, Margaret. Witnesses, Vivian Dorroche, John Graham. 

1012. November 5. Thomas Knox and ]\Iarion Greinleis, a lawful daugh- 

ter named Janet. Witnesses, James Greinleis, \'ivian Hill. 

1013. August 5. Marcus Knox and Helein Wilsonne, a lawful eon 

Robert, godfathers, James Lindsay and George Wilsonne. 

1013. November 25. John Knox and Janat Snyp, a lawful daughter 
Margaret; godfathers, Andrew and Robert Snypes. 

1018. May 10. Marion Knox, Helen Wilsonn, a lawful son James; god- 
fathers, James Lindsay and Michael Brown. 

1021. December 10. John Knoxes, Janet Snipe, a lawful daughter 
Geills; godfathers, Andrew Snipe and Phillane Kylle, cooper. 

1023. October 25. Robert Knox and Catharine Adderstonn, a lawful 
daughter Janet; godfathers, Robert and James Aderstonne. 

1028. July 13. William Knox and Catharine Elphingstonn, lawful son 
John; godfathers, Mr. David and James Elphinstones. 



25(J The Knox Family. 

1029. November 7. Do. and Do., a daughter, lawful, Jeane: godfathers, 
Mr. David and James Elphinstones. 

lt»32. February 25. Do. and Do., a lawful daughter Kathrene: god- 
fathers, James Elphinstone, George Knox. 

1(534. January 22. Do. and Do., a lawful daughter Janet; godfathers, 
Eobert Hamilton, George Knox. 

1036. November 5. Do. and Do., a lawful daughter Janet: godfathers, 
Mr. David and James Elphinstones. 

1038. November 5. Do. and Do., lawful daughter Agnes; godfathers as 
above. 

1040. September 15. Do. and Do., lawful son William; godfathers as 
above. 

1042. September 15. Do. and Do. lawful daughter Mary; same god- 

fathers. 
1045. February 13. Do. and Do., lawful daughter Jean; godfathers as 

above. 
1050. January 18. Do. and Do., a son and daughter George and Anna; 

godfathers, James Elpcistone and George Knox. 

1043. May 2. Thomas Knox and Bessie Spang, lawful son Tiiomas: god- 

fathers, Kobert Caldwell and Robert Boyd. 
1045. December 1. Do. and Do., a lawful daughter Helein ; godfathers, 

Robert Caldwell and Robert Boyd. 
1047. Dec-ember 23. Do. and Do., a lawful daughter Bessie; godfathers, 

Andrew Reid and John Fergussonn. 
1700. October 22. Alexander Knox and Elizabeth Davidson, a lawful son 

Alexander; witnesses, James and William Knoxes. 

1700. December 15. Robert Knox and Marie Fleckfield, a lawful daugh- 

ter Margaret; witnesses, Robert and .Jolin Fleckfields. 

1701. July 20. James Knox and Hall, a lawful son Alexander; 

witnesses, William and Alexander Knoxes. 

1702. August 10. James Knox and Agnes Alexander, a lawful son Jolin; 

witnesses, William Jamisone and William Harvie. 

1703. February 14. Robert Knox and Mary Fleckfield, a lawful daugh- 

ter Janet; witnesses, Robert and John Fleckfields. 
1703. February 10. James Knox and .Jean Hall, a lawful son William; 

witnesses, William and Alexander Knoxes. 
1703. May 11. Alexander Knox and Elisabeth Davidson, a lawful 

daughter Isobell ; witnesses, James Knox and Patrick Bogle. 

1703. December 9. James Knox and Jean Hall, a lawful daughter Jean; 

witnesses, Alexander Knox and David Hall. 

1704. March 29. Robert Knox and Mary Fleckfield, a lawful daughter 

Mary; witnesses, Robert Fleckfield and John Fleckfield. 
1705 September 10. George Knox and Marion Cunningham, a lawful 
son George; witnesses, John Merns, William Chalmers. 



XoTEs FiJOM Scottish IJt;oi>;TE[.N. 257 

170."). November 11. Alexander Knox and Klisalieth Davidson, n lawful 
daiijiliter Isobell; witnesses, dames Knox and Peter Hofjill. 

1708. April 4. Kobert Knox and HiUmi Provan. a natural son Robert; 
witnesses. Mattliew Piu\aii and .Iidin Uraiiame. 

1710. ,hily 2:i. Geor<>e Knox and .Marion C'unningliam, a lawful Ron 

Robert; witnesses, John Anderson and James Thomson. 

1711. May 27. Thomas Knox and Marf;aret Wallace, a lawful daughter 

.lanet: \vitne>ses, William Haddin. Robert Reid. 
171o. duly 2(i. John Knox and Afrnes Jolin>tone. a natural son James; 
witness, James IJoyl and MaUonie Knox. 

II. Barony. 

Baptisms, etc., I(i72-1710. 

Xo Knox entries appear in tiii>. register. 

III. Renfrew. 

liaptisms and Marriages, etc., 1073-1725. 

ir.74. January — . John, son lawful to John Knox, wright. and Janet 

Knox, born and bapli^^ed the 11th day of the said month. 
I(i73. DeiendHM- G. James Knox in this parisli and Janet Knox in Old 
Kilpatriok were thrice proclaimed in order to marriage and 
married the 1st of January, 1G74. 
1074. ilay — . John Knox and Jean Blackwood, both in this parish, 
were married the 10 day thereof. 

1074. September 20. John Knox and Jean Strang. l>oth in this parish. 

were married October the 13 day. 

1075. Jul}' — . Alexander Knox, in this pari>h. and Margaret AVilson, 

in Paislej-, were married the 13 day of the said month and year. 
1070. January. Robert Knox and Agnes Forsyth, both in this parish, 

were married the 19 day thereof. 
1070. April — . ^Margaret, daughter lawful to .John Knox, cooper, was 

born the 4th day and baptized at Kilmaeolme the 8th day of 

the said month. 
1077. ^May — . Alexander, son lawful to Alexander Knox and Margaret 

Wilson, was born the 7 day and baptised the 27 thereof. 

1077. September — . Robert, son lawful to Adam Knox, was born 15 

day and baptised 20 thereof. 

1078. Marcli — . Margaret, daughter lawful to John Knox and Sarah 

Craig, born 15 day thereof and baptised the 24 day. 

EDINBURGH TESTAMENTS. 

1003. July 26. Testament testamentar of Margaret Knex. sometime 
spouse to Nicol Smyth in Windiehous, in the parish of St. 
Kavok. Ayrshire, who died on 20 [March, 1002, given up by her- 
self and by her said .spouse and Marion Smyth, her daughter. 



258 The Kxox Family. 

The estate is valued to £G(!9, 13, 4, ami tliere was due to 
them f2G(l, 13, 4. They were due £3G7, 6, 8, among tlie creditors 
being William Knox burgess of Ayr, Janet Adam, her daughter 
for her portion natural £40, Robert Duncan, her son of portion 
natural, 20 merks, Margaret Smith, her stepdaughter of por- 
tion natural, 300 merks. 

In her testament dated at Windiehous 21 March, 1002, she 
appoints Xicol Smyth, her spouse, and Marion Smytli, her 
daughter, her executors, and certain oversmen among whom is 
William Knox, burgess of Ayr. She leaves to her two bairns 
before mentioned, Robert Duncan and Janet Adam, £20 between 
them. (Vol. 38.) 
1005. May 15. Testament testamentar of Margaret Greinleis, spouse of 
Marcus Knox, merchant burgess of Glasgow, who died in July 
22, 1G04, given up by herself. 

The estate is valued to £779, 14, 8, and there was due to 
them £2528, 9, 9, among the debtors being John Knox, son to 
Katherine Freeland, and Andrew Knox in Renfrew. 
They were due 100 merks. Her testament is dated 16 July, 
1604, and in it she leaves legacies to Janet, Michael and Mar- 
garet Cawie, her three sister's bairns, £100; 100 merks to Janet 
Mure her motlier, £100 to Michael Broun, her brother, and 
Thomas Knox, her youngest son. £500 merks. (Vol. 40.) 
1607. January 8. Testament dative of Matthew Knox, burgess of Ren- 
frew and Helen Knox, his relict spouse, who died in August, 
1005, and she, in February, 1606, given up by Thomas Knox, 
burgess of Renfrew, as nearest of kin to Uchtred Adam, and 
Matthew Knox, lawful bairns of the deceased and executors 
dative to them. 

The estate is valued to £293, 6, 8, and there was due to them 
£22, by John Knox in . . . and John Knox in Bones. 

Mr. Peter Houston, of Wester Sowbar is cautioner. (Vol. 
42.) 
1609. April 20. Testament dative of Margaret Knox, sometime spouse 
of Duncan Brysonn, merchant burgess of Renfrew, who died in 
September, 1608, given up by her said spouse as father to James 
and Robert Brysonn, his minor children. 

The estate is valued to £1201, 18. 4, and there was due to 
them £133, 6. 8, including tocher due by John Knox, in Glasgow, 
still due with his said sister Margaret Knox, £26, 13. 4, and 
also by the heirs of the deceased John Knox, his gudefather, 
£32, and further resting of tocher by Johi>> Knox, in Glasgow, 
£66, 13, 4. They were due £280, 13, 4. Alexander Broun, 
younger, merchant burgess, of Edinburghy is cautioner. (Vol. 
45.) 



XoTKS ri.'OM Scottish 1'i:gisti:i!s. 2:)9 

l(;r>0. Xovpnil)cr 30. Te>taiiiciU dative of Tlioiiia- Kiinx, in Quhytwoll 
Wall-, ill tlio pari>li of Stow, wlin died in .\|iril. 1(!28, given up 
by lleiiiy Knox, son lawful of tiie defunet. and executxsr dative 
to liini. 

The estate is valued to £342, 10. 1, and there was due to him 
£253. (), 8. ineludinsr £20 by Marpaiet Knox, in Crychtonn. 

He was due £(i(), 13, 4. 

William Seott, niessenger in Heriot town, is cautioner. (Vol. 

r>o.) 

l(ir>0. June lU. Testament testamentar of Marion Knox, lawful daugh- 
t*r of James Knox, indweller in Morhame. wlio died in . . . 
lO.iO, given up by herself and by William Maritine, elder in 
Morhame, whom she appointed her only executor. 

The estate is valued to £3(i. 2. S, and there was due to her 
£273. (5, 8. In her testament she is called servitrix to William 
Spavino-, in liallin^jrus. and her said executor is her uncle; to 
lier children. William, James and Bessie Maritines, she leaves 
some of her property. (Vol. (55.) 

ItUn. July 18. Testament dative of Mr. John Knox, minister at Caring- 
tonn. who died on 21st November, l(i50, given up by Xicol Kno.x. 
hi- uncle and executor. 

The estate is valued to £1102. 13. 4. and there was due to 
him £3507. (i. ?!. 



XOTES FROM FIFESHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. 

I. Kirkcaldy. 
Baptisms, etc., 1G14-1G30. 

1(517. December 2. George Knox, son lawful to David Knox and Janet 

Ilutchen. 
KiUt. July 11. Helen Knox, lawful daughter to Patrick Knox and Janet 

Fair. 
1(521. January 5. Thomas Knox, lawful son to David Knox and Janet 

Hutcheoun. 
1620-30. David Knox occurs repeatedly as a witness to baptisms. 

II. F.\LKLAXI). 

Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, lCGl-1750. 

170G. June 17. Mr. James Knox and Rebecca Arnott liad their daugh- 
ter Jean baptised. 

1708. October 13. Do. and Do. had their son John baptised. 

1742. September 12. Alexander Knox and Mary Rae. in Glaslie. had 
their son James baptised. 



260 The Knox Family. 

REGISTER OF THE ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. 

1528. George Knox protests that the foifeituie of the Earl of Angus 
shall not prejudge his right to an annual rent from the Lord- 
ship of Douglas. 

15G7. John Knox, minister, is a commissioner on the jurisdiction of the 
Kirk. 

1567. He is added to tlie assembly of barons and commissaries for fram- 
ing articles concerning the Kirk. 

1597. Proceedings by Andrew Knox, minister at Paisley, against Bar- 
clay, of Ladj'land. 

1643. John Knox, of Barus, Dumbartonshire. 

1647. Simeon Knox, an English sailor, is taken prisoner by Lauchlan 
M'Neill, Governor of Canna; pass granted to him to go to 
London. 

1661. Robert Knox, minister at Kelso; act in favor of his widow. 

REGISTER OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL. 

1576. October 29. Adam Knox, Robert Knox, and Andre Knok, ordered 
to appear before the Privy Council about the choosing of mag- 
istrates for the burgh of Renfrew, of whicli they are burgesses. 
(.Vol. II.) 

1580. June 9. Mr. John Knox, minister at Lander, complains upon 
David Douglas, in Ugstonn, that for his having refused to bap- 
tise a bastard child of Douglas's without his making public re- 
pentance according to the order of the church, he set upon him 
on the highway between Cowdoun and Dalkeith, and with a 
whinger wounded him in the side and hand, to the great effu- 
sion of his blood and peril of his life. Douglas not appearing is 
put to the horn. (Vol. III.) 

1585. April 27. Jean Knox, Lady Duchall, has complained against 

James Cunningham, pensioner of Lesurahago, for convocating 
the lieges and coming to her mill of Duehal and demolishing the 
same, threatening her servants and tenants, and other enormi- 
ties. But as she fails to appear to prosecute, the case in dis- 
missed. (Vol. III.) 

1586. January 27. Matthew Stewart, of Barscube, becomes cautioner for 

John Knox, of Raniforlie, in 300 merks, Uthred Knox, his son, 
and apparent heir, Jarines Knox, William and . . . Knox, 
his sons, and others, in £100 each, that they will not molest 
Patrick and Robert Henderson, and others. (Vol. IV.) 

1587. February 9. Caution in 1000 merks by William Buntene, of Ar- 

doch, for William Hair, of Pennell, that he will not molest 
Thomas Knox, of Selviland, and John Knox, his son. (Vol. IV.) 



XoTEs ri;().-\i Sc(.TTisii llt:GisTL:i;s. x'e;] 

loSO. XcvoinluT 11. .\,l;nn Kiu,\ aii.I Tlu.ina. Kiick, wiili il,.. ,.-1 „, Cu. 
Coiimil of the- bur-ill of Keiifrew, are menlionoil a- |.arli<- in a 
case by tlie burfi:li for Mii)oii-.ioii of letters of lioiiiiiiT a-'aiii-t 
tlieui. (Vol. 1\-.) "^ " 

1590. July 17. Kp-;istiation of IJoiid of cauliiiii by Robert. Lor.l Sunple, 

• Jolin Seiuple, of Toulwood, and another, for .lame- Knox, tutor 
of llamfurlio, and William and Patrick Kno\. broti.er- of the 
late Uehter Knox, youn-er. of Kauifurlie. in iiliKl each tiiat 
they will not molest Margaret :Maxwell. widow of ti.e -aid l.ue 
Iditer Knox. Dated at .Moulstonn, 2 July, 13!M). one witne-s 
lieiiig Mr. -\ndrew Knox, minister at Paisley. (Vol. I\'.| 

1591. Xovend)er 10. Robert Knox, in Dun-e. mentii.ned in connection 

with a case of tresi)as> about teinds. (Vol. I\'.) 
1593. January. Mr. Andrew Kno.x, minister of Paisley, and some ueiijh- 
bours apprehended Mi'. Ueorge Ker, brother of .Mark Ker. Lord 
Newbattle, in the island of Cunuay, and took possession of his 
papers, viz., those known as the Spanish blanks. (Vol. 5.) 
1593. This Mr. Andrew Knox, in 1597, having obtained a conunission 
for the apprehension of papists and subverters of the true re- 
ligion, and learning that Hew Barclay, of Ladyland. had come 
from Spain and intended to take possession -of t!ie island of 
Jslay and fortify it for the Spani-h army, went to meet him at 
his landing in order to prevent tliis and demanded his surren- 
der. Barclay refused, and wading in the sea and going back- 
wards he was drowned. The Lords approve of the diligence of 
the said Mr. Andrew Knox and declare that he and none of his 
helpers are to blame for this man's death. (Vol. \'.) 

REGISTER OF ACTS AND DECREETS. 

1581. July 8. Action by John Knox, of Ranfurlie. against Patrick Gil- 
lespie, minister at St. Vivians Kirk, Kippen, Leubert. etc., 
about stipend. (Vol. 5o, fol. 170.) 

1570. July 5. Action by Sir William Cranston, vicar of Ligartwood, 
against David, conimendator of Dryburgh. Mr. John Knox, 
minister at Lander, and Schingilkirk, for payment yearly of 50 
merks. (63, f. 330.) 

1570. November 5. Action by Jean Knok. widow of Joiin Porterlield of 
that Ilk, and others, about some meadow land. (05. f. 203.) 

1570. February 1. Action'by Adam Somerville, in the Bathill. against 
Jean Knok, widow of Mr. John Porterfield, John Weir, in Rane- 
frow and Allan Knok for spoliation of his lands of Baithill. 
continued. (60, f. 264.) 

1577. March 28. The Lords assign to Jean Knok. widow of Mr. John 
Porterfield, John Or, in Renfrew, and Allan Knok. 



262 The Kxox Family. 

Copt from the Catalogue of the Alumni of Auburn Theological 
Seminary, Auburn, New York. 

Absalom K. Barr, class of 1829-32, set. 53. Born in Rowan county,. 
X. C, October 4, 1806; united with the Church while in college; gradu- 
ated from University of North Carolina in 1827; taught two years; 
Auburn, 1832; married to Miss Abia Foote Wofnier, of Locke, N. Y., 
July 4. 1839; died at Springfield, Ohio, June 4, 1859. He had six chil- 
dren; his wife and four children survive him. 

Ordained by Concord Presbytery November 5, 1834; Mecklenburg 
county, N. C, lS32-'5; Onondaga and Yates counties, N. Y., 1835-1843; 
Ohio, 1843-1854; resident Springfield, Ohio, from 1854. 

(There were twenty-four in the class of 1829-1832.) 



INDEX. 



To index anything like all the names in the Knox Genealogy wonld he 
quite impiaeticable. We have, therefore, made selections from each chapter 
or branch, and endeavored to so arrange it that any one can tind some name 
on their immediate branch or family, and tlius be referred to the genealogy 

of that branch. 

Page. 
AuAMS, William, 185 

Jane Brandon, 185 

Allison, Dr. John, 14G 

Thoma-*, 150 

T. J., 150 

Alexander, Mrs. Phi, 201 

Mary Irene, 202 

John Watts, 202 

ANDER.SON, W. B., 150 

Horace, 154 

Michal, 207 

Armstrong, Maria Folk Walker, 129 

Abel 1S8 

Margaret, 142 

Atchison, William, 210 

•Jennie 219 

Barr, William, 157 

Rev. Absalom Knox, 157. I<i8 

Lawrence W., 157. 1<>9 

Mary, 158 

Jane, 161 

John Scudder 171 

Bailey, Mrs. Blanche, 232 

Fred, 232 

Bain, Mrs. John, 176 

Barringer, Mrs. Martin. 161 

Carrie McC, ICl 

William M., 161 

Beans, T. Ellard, 133 

William Knox, 133 



Pagb- 

Brandon, James, IS8 

Benjamin, ISO 

Mary Knox, 172 

.les.e, 174 

Fannie Ivnox, ISl 

Allison, •. 142 

Bartiiold, Mrs. Oscar, 247 

B.\rclay, .John and James, 38 

Boone, Maj. H. L., 130 

Berry, Dr. C. C, 160 

Beach, Mrs. Sarah Barr, 169 

Borders, Cynthia' Knox, 76 

PvOBESON, W m. Henry, 96 

Caldwell, Abner, 207 

James, 207 

Maxwell, 207 

CAMPnKLL, Mrs. Dr. \N . M 233 

Dr. Reuben A., 233 

Carson, Mrs. John H., 53 

Click, Margaret Graham 165 

William W., 166 

Jesse D 1^5 

Cecil, Mrs. Dr. Geo. F 196 

Chambers. Jane Ann 206 

Certificate, oflicial from Raleigh, 

X. C, p 

Coit, Mrs. Dovie Knox 151 

.John Knox, 151 

Cowan, J. !>., ''3 

Cowle.S, :Mr-. llr.gh 64 



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The Kxox Family. 



Pagk. 
CiLBERTOX. Ml*. Richard, 203 

Rev. E. W., 204 

Coat of Arms, Kxox, 14 

Daxiel. Mrs. Eugene 247 

D.vvxs. Mrs. Thos. J.. 104 

James Scott 105 

Mrs. Burt. 196 

Foster. Mrs. John 1G2 

Force. Charles F., 146 

Margaret Canmont 14(i 

Fort, Kxox"s 74 

Flemixg, Andrew 158 

Foard. Mrs. Jane Ann, 62 

Gay. Portland 70 

Franklin 72 

GoooMAX. Hattie S., 201 

John Knox 201 

George C 202 

GoiGER. Mrs. Martha J.. 105 

Minnie 106 

Ralph 190 

Gori.f). Rev. Daniel 144 

Robert S.. LL. D 147 

Gracy. Jean 30 

Patrick 35 

Grave, of J. K. and Jean K., . . . . 34 

James Knox. 114 

Graham. Abel. 164 

Porter 1.58 

John K 164 

Hale. ilrs. Fannie E., 41 

Hall. William F.. 158 

Hartxes. James 155 

Harrlso.x, Mrs. Fanny, 205 

Sevier. 206 

Hawtiiorxe, Mrs. Estelle, KiO 

HoLiFAX', John B 72 

Horx. Miss Rebecca 248 

HorsTox. Dr. James Hiram, .... 143 

Robert L 143 

Mrs. Dr. 0. P 159 

Hkndersox, Mrs. Dr. R 162 

Rev. Giles A 163 

llroiiEY. Mrs. H. M 55 



Paob. 

Jackmax, J. R 242 

Jarr.att, Dr. Wm., 76 

Jexkixs, Georgia, 77 

K.xox, John, the Reformer, 19 

\\'illiam, brother to 17 

Basil Lamar, 107 

Isaac 241 

John, emigrant, 30 

Jean' Gracy, 30 

Willianr, 38 

Samuel-, Sr., 74 

James-, 113 

, Absalom-, 142 

John-, 172 

Joseph-, 209 

Benjamin-, 224 

Mary=, 231 

John^ T., 39 

John', 45 

Joseph L 43 

Benjamin' 49. 220 

William' 50 

Hubbard Allen", . 51 

SamueP, 51 

Ben Allen', 52 

John', 53 

Robert C", . . .• 53 

Robert M.^ 53 

EzekieP, 55 

Willis', 57 

Robert*, 63 

John S.', 63 

James, 64, 66, 75 

William', 66 

John L.', 66 

David Luckey* 79 

SamueP, Jr., 98 

John B.', 102 

Chris. C, 81 

Chris. L.», 88 

Walter S.», 91 

Thos. J.', 93 

Dr. James C* 99 

Hugh M.', 107 



Index. 



m;.) 



Pagk. 
Knox — 

William \\.\ 108 

Eliza Agues*, Ill 

William James, M. D.", 132 

Andrew', 151 

Robert A.», 151 

John Marshall', 151 

James OillespieS 1G2 

Eiiphemia\ 102 

James DavicP, 02 

George', 105 

Rufus, 1!)5 

James*, Rev., 107 

Robert C, l06 

Joseph, 200, 217, 220 

John', 209 

Dr. Absalom, 210 

John' L., 211 

William' H., 212 

R.' M 213 

Dr. Nicholas^' C, 215 

James' P., 216 

S.' Y. T., 217 

Thomas', 220 

Benjamin', 220 

R. E.' 222 

William Homer', 222 

W. E.*, 223 

Samuel W.», 223 

Benjamin*, 224 

John', 225 

Sarah*, 225 

Col. William* Luckey, 228 

James M., 220 

John and Calhoun, 229 

Robert T., 235 

William James, 237 

Charles, Sr., the hatter, 238 

Charles, Jr., 239 

Dr. S. B. P., 241 

R. S.. M. D., 241 

Archibald A., 242 

R. C, 246 

Major-Gen. Henry, 247 



)'AOE. 

Kkknkk, ^Ir-. Klla Knox 2.17 

Ki.NCAii), Mrs. Thos. and Mrs. Lcc, (i2 

Ll.NGLE, Moses, IS!) 

Little, Mrs. Mary Hnliiu'-on 2.1S 

LowKA.NCE, Rev. Wm. L liiO 

Rev. Eugene, I(i0 

LfCKEY, William, ti,") 

Task, Robert, 230 

Maddox, Mrs. V. K 133 

Matthew.s, Major Mussentiiio, ..14S 

Matthews, Ebenezer, 147 

Milas, 147 

Sally Katharine, 150 

McClary, John, 178 and 170 

James, 178 

Ulysses G., 180 

McCoKKLE, Col. Finley, Kil 

Sarah, 1(!1 

Cordelia, ^ Idl 

Samuel, 67 

William, 67 

McKamy, Mrs. Juliett Knox, .... '.14 

David Knox, 05 

James and William H., 05 

Thomas J., 0.) 

McKenzie, Chas. H., 154 

Hon. James H., 1")4 

Rev. Benjamin S., 155 

Miller, Mrs. Carrie Wood, 156 

Monument, Knox, 252 

Keely, Mrs. Mag, <i3 

Fannie, ' . '■ ■ 64 

Nesbit, Mrs. John, 162 

William A., lr.2 

NiBLOCK, Mrs. Levi, 59 

George, 59 

Thomas, 60 

Nicholson, John, 181 

Melissa, 182 

Benjamin, 184 

Patterson, Alexander, 182 

Samuel, 183 

Sarah Isadore, 183 

Frances Knox, ' 204 



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TuE Kxox Family. 



Paob. 

Patteusox — 

Alfred 204 

James and Thomas 205 

PiiiFKK. Martin 52 

Magi'ie 52 

Mrs. Lena Knox 52 

Mrs. Dwite 54 

Polk. Samuel 134 

James K r21 

Jane Maria 125 

Lydia Eliza US 

Polk. Marshall IIH 

Naomi L 120 

(»phelia C 120 

William Hawkins 120 

BosTOX. Mr?. Iwichal (>7 

Iliel 70 

Elinina 71 

Robert 71 

Ramsey. Mrs. Dr. Tillman l!)(j 

Raxkix, Mrs. W. W., 150 

Reii), David 1!»2 

(ioorge and James 193 

Rexfrew 28 

RiX(.LAXi). Rev. Dr., 153 

RosEBRO. ]\Iary Knox 231 

Tliomas D.. 231 

Milton and Riifus 232 

Adolpluis 233 

Rev. J. W.. 233 

John R 233 

Ross, Ella 143 

ErDiciL. Dr. R. Y., Ill 

Dr. C. C. L 112 

Scott, John M Kil 

Sevier, Gen. John 220 

Dr. George W" 225 

Sarah Knox, 225 and 228 

Jennie V., 228 



Paob. 

SiMOXTOX, Mrs. \\ illiam 143 

Mary and Absalom 143 

Mary Jane. 143 

Zilpha 144 

S^rARTT Mrs. Emma Sue Knox. . . 07 

Steele. Matthew, (il 

William (il 

John 02 

Stimsox, Mrs. Logan 00 

Meta 00 

TiioMPSox, James OS 

. Locke 00 

]Mrs. Margaret, <iS 

Turner. 70 

ToRREXCE, Elizabeth 145 

Margaret 140 

Tree, Knox Family 250 

TiRXER, Wni. W. and Chap 73 

TiiL, Rev. L. L., .157 and 170 

Grace Barr, 157. 170 

Waddell, Greenberry, 1(»5 

Sarah G 100 

Weatherly, Mrs. Lucy, 232 

Webb, Mrs. Amanda J 40 

Welsh, John, 23 

Wherry. Mrs. Sue Knox, 215 

White, Mrs. Kate Wood 150 

Will of J. K. Knox, the Reformer, 25 

Jean Knox, 32 

James Knox. 115 

Extract from James K. Polk's, 135 

of James Brandon, 188 

Witherspoox, Thos. J., 105 

Wiseman, Dr. Alfred W., 1(!0 

Wood. William B., 154 

Rev. William A., 155 and 100 

Scott, 155 

Wyatt. Mrs. Marv Mackev 110 



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